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He was a clam-digger and salmon fisher.
"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 in any other capasity that brought him food and a bed." pg. 98 -
He attended St. Olaf's and worked as a janitor.
"An instinct toward his future glory had led him some months before to the small lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota" pg. 99 -
James Gatz meets Dan Cody.
"He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz's destiny in Little Girl Bay." pg. 99 -
James Gatz changes his name to Jay Gatsby.
"James Gatz-that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career- when he saw Dan Cody's yacht to drop anchot over the most insious flat on Lake Superior" pg. 98 -
Jay Gatsby sails under Dan Cody for five years.
"And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby Left too." pg. 100 -
Dan Cody dies.
"... Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later, Dan Cody inhospitably died." pg. 100 -
Gatsby meets Daisy.
"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking in a way that every young gitl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered it ever since." pg. 75
