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"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..." (104)
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"He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny... and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through." (105)
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"He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment when he witnessed the beginning of his carrer..." (104)
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"... Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat of Lake Superior." (104)
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"And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too." (106)
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"It may have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died." (106)
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"It may have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in BOston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died." (106)
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"... and becuase it seemed so romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years-even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man. That was nineteen-seventeen." (80)
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"Wild rumors were circulating about her-how her mother had found her packing her bag on winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas." (80)
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"'Several years,' he answered in a gratified way. 'I made the pleasure of his acquaintance just after the war....'"
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"I waved my hand at the invisible hedge in the distance, 'and this man Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an ivitation.' For a moment he looked at me as if he failed to understand. 'I'm Gatsby,' he said suddenly." (52)
