The Great Gatsby Timeline
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Updated: 24 Jul 2021
A brief timeline of the major events in the book
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Created byIftekhar Jawad
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Nick Carraway is born in a Midwestern city.Daisy Fay is born in Louisville, Kentucky.Jordan Baker is born in Louisville, Kentucky.James Gatz, 17 years old, meets Dan Cody in Little Girl Bay on Lake Superior and changes his name to Jay Gatsby.Gatsby sails the seas with Cody for five years.World War I begins.Nick Carraway graduates from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and goes to fight in WWI.Gatsby is stationed at Camp Taylor in Louisville, where he meets Daisy Fay (he is 27, she is 18). They are together for a month, and he is shocked by how much in love with her he falls.Gatsby leaves for Europe to fight in WWI.After Armistice, Gatsby spends five months at Oxford University in England, in a program for army officers.Despite some reluctance, Daisy marries Tom Buchanan.Nick decides to learn bond trading in New York. He rents a small house in West Egg, Long Island, next door to Gatsby’s mansion.Tom takes Nick to meet Myrtle. They go to a Manhattan apartment, to a small party that ends with Tom punching Myrtle in the face for talking about Daisy.Nick is invited to one of Gatsby’s house parties and meets him.A reporter comes by to investigate the rumors about Gatsby.The murder-suicide is mischaracterized as the actions of a deranged grieving husband, and there is no mention of the Buchanans or of Myrtle’s affair in the police report.Nick hashes things out with Jordan.Nick writes the story about Gatsby and that fateful summer - this story is the novel that we are reading.
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