Jay Gatsby's Life

Jay meets Dan Cody

Sep 17, 1912

"He saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most inisidious flat lake on the Superior."

Timespan for Jay Gatsby

Period: Sep 17, 1912 to Oct 30, 1922

He got his first job as a Clam digger & a Slamon fisher

Jan 4, 1913

"He must be about his fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty."

He stayed at a Lutheran college in St. Olaf in southern Minnesota for two weeks.

Aug 28, 1914

"An instinct toward his future glory had led him."

Meets Daisy B.

Oct 11, 1917

"She dressed in white and had a little white roadster and all day long the telephone rang..."

Was sent to sea in a yacht for five years.

Jul 5, 1918

"Common knowledge to the turjid journalism."

Dan Cody passed away.

Feb 15, 1920

"A week later, Dan Cody inhospitably died."

The money that Gatsby was supposed to go to Jay, went to Ella Kay by an unknown government law/issue.

Nov 24, 1921

"He was left with his singularly appropriate education."