Jay Gatsby

  • Jay works as a fisherman

    Jay works as a fisherman
    "...beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed." (pg 104)
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    Jay Gatsby

    From Jay's venture to college to the summer of The Great Gatsby.
  • James quits his janitorial job at St. Olaf's

    James quits his janitorial job at St. Olaf's
    "...the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota." (pg 105)
    "... despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through." (pg 105)
  • James Gatz meets Dan Cody and is hired

    James Gatz meets Dan Cody and is hired
    "...when the Tulomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too." (pg 106)
  • Ella Kaye gets on the boat

    Ella Kaye gets on the boat
    "...except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston..." (pg 106)
  • Dan Cody Dies

    Dan Cody Dies
    "... a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died." (pg 106)
  • Ella gets all of Cody's inheritance

    Ella gets all of Cody's inheritance
    "He never understsood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went inact to Ella Kaye." (pg 107)
  • Gatsby meets Daisy

    Gatsby meets Daisy
    "...she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before. They were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me until I was five feet away." (pg 79)
  • Nick moves in next to Gatsby

    Nick moves in next to Gatsby
    "My house was at the very tip of the egg... squeezed between two huge places..." (pg 9) "It was Gatsby's." (pg 9)