Gatsbys house

Jay Gatsby"s Life.

By tzimmerman

  • James Gatsby was born.

    James Gatsby was born.
    James gatz was born on 1896 and when he grew up, at the age of 17, he eventually changed his name to James Gatsby. " he had changed it at the age of seventeen at the specific moment that he witnessed the beginning of his career." pg.98

  • Growing Up

    He grew up on a farm with boring parents that didnt really do much in life. "His parents were shiftless and unsuccesseful farm people- his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. pg. 98

  • First job

    First job
    His first job was that he worked as a Janitor at St. Olaf's in Minnesota. " He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and dispising the janitors work with which he was to pay his way through." pg.99

  • Career

    Career
    He started hey career with a drunk named dan cody on a yaht fishing for salmon and digging clams. " 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 or or in any other capacity thaat brought him food and a bed." pg.98

  • Life on the sea

    He stayed on Dan Cody's boat for a while and had a full time job. Wile on th eboat he had many jobs that he was in charge of. "He was employed in a vague personal capacity- 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 reposting more and more trust in Gatsby." pg.100

  • Dan Cody

    Dan Cody
    Dan cody eventually dies and gatsby thinks he is going to inherit the money but he didn't and is left with no money. "It might have lasted indefinatly except for the fact that Ella Kayne came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably." pg.100

  • Motivation

    Motivation
    He realizes that he is going to stay away from alcohol and focus on being a successful man. " Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone." pg.101