The Great Gatsby
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Updated: 19 May 2021
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Gatsby is born. (Since Gatsby is 17 when he meets Dan Cody in 1907, he was born in 1890.)Jay Gatsby (kid)Nick Carraway is born. (Since Nick is 30 in 1922. "I'm 35 years too old to die." He was born in 1892.)Daisy Fay is born. (Daisy was 18 when she met Gatsby in 1917, so Daisy was born in 1899.)Dan Cody, Gatsby's mentor, buys his yacht and begins his ten-year journey.At the age of 17, Gatsby joins Cody in Girl Bay and sails the seas with him for five yearsCody's yachtDan Cody dies. ("The arrangement lasted five years. One night in Boston and a week later Dan COdy inhospitably died.")Nick Carraway graduates from New Haven at the age of 23. (' I graduated from New Haven in 1915."Daisy and Gatsby meet in Louisville. Daisy is 18 and Gatsby is 27The USA enters The Great War, and Jay Gatsby fights for his countryDaisy marries Tom Buchanan even though she doesn't want to.Nick decides to learn bond trading in New York. He rents a small house in West Egg, Long Island, next to Gatsby's mansion.Nick is invited to one of Gatsby's parties and meets him.The murder-suicide is mischaracterized as the actions of a deranged grieving husband.
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