Gatbsy

Great Gatsby Timeline

  • Jay Gatsby changes his name

    Jay Gatsby changes his name
    ''James Gatz - that was really, or at least his kegally, his name .He changed it at the age of seventeen'' Page-104
  • Jay Gatz working in Lake Superior

    Jay Gatz working in Lake Superior
    ''For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore Lake Superior as a calm digger and a salmon fisher or in any other capcity that bought him food and bed'' Page-104
  • He went to college

    He went to college
    " An instinct toward his future glory had led him som months before, to a small Luthern College of St.Olaf in southern Minnesota" Page-105
  • Gooing to St.Olaf College

    Gooing to St.Olaf College
    "James stayed there for two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was pay his way through." Page 105
  • Working with Dan Cody

    Working with Dan Cody
    ''While he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper,secretary and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby.''
  • Meeting Dan Cody

    Meeting Dan Cody
    " Isuppose he smiled at Cody-he had probably discovered that people like him when he smiled. At the rate Cody asked him a few questions(one of them elicited the brand new name) and found that he was quick, and extravagantly ambitious."
  • He met Dan Cody

    He met Dan Cody
    ''Then he drifted back to Lake Superior , and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows along the shore
  • Dan Cody Dieds

    Dan Cody Dieds
    ''Ella Kaye came on board one night in boston and a weel later Dan Cody in hospitably died.''