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Gatsby works at Lake Superior
"For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher..." (104) -
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Gatsby attends a Lutheran college (2 weeks)
"He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny... and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through." (105) -
James Gatz changes his name to Jay Gatsby
"He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment when he witnessed the beginning of his carrer..." (104) -
Dan Cody arrives in Lake Superior
"... Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat of Lake Superior." (104) -
Dan Cody and Jay Gatsby leave for West Indies
"And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too." (106) -
Dan Cody dies
"It may have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died." (106) -
Ella Kaye boards Cody's ship
"It may have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in BOston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died." (106) -
Daisy meets Jay Gatsby
"... and becuase it seemed so romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years-even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man. That was nineteen-seventeen." (80) -
Gatsby is sent overseas
"Wild rumors were circulating about her-how her mother had found her packing her bag on winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas." (80) -
Gatsby meets Wolfshiem after war
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Gatsby meets Nick
"I waved my hand at the invisible hedge in the distance, 'and this man Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an ivitation.' For a moment he looked at me as if he failed to understand. 'I'm Gatsby,' he said suddenly." (52)
