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James Gatz works at St.Olaf"s College
"...small Lutheran college of St. Olaf's...stayed two weeks dismayed and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through." page 99 -
James Gatz works odd jobs
"For over a year, James Gatz had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher, or in any other caapacity that gave him food and board." page 98 -
James Gatz changes his name to Jay Gatsby
"James Gatz, that was really, or atleast legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career..." page 98 -
Jay Gatsby meets Dan Cody
"...when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior." -
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Working with Dan Cody
"The arrangement lasted five years, in which they sailed around the continent 3 time" page 100 -
Dan Cody dies, and Gatsby looses the money
"This arrangement lasted 5 years..." page 100
"Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitable died." page 100
"And it was from Cody that he inherited money- a legacy of $25, 000. He didn't get it...what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye." page 100 -
Gatsby joins the Army and is sent to Louivile for Basic Training
"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby..." -
Gatsby meets Daisy
"One October day in nineteen-seventeen...belonged Daisy Fay. She was just 18, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all he young girls in Louisville...she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before. They were so engossed in each other that she didn't see me until I was five feet away."page 74
"His name was Jay Gatsby..." page 75 -
Gatsby was sent off to war
"Wild rumors were circulating about her- how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to say good-bye to a soldier who was going overseas." page 75
