Gatsby Timeline
James Gatz meets Dan Cody
Dan Cody dies and $25,000 is left to Gatsby, but Cody's mistress doesn't give Gatsby the money."And it was from Cody that he inherited the money- a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn't get it"(pg.100).
WWI Starts, 1914. Gatsby, Nick, and Tom go into the war
Gatsby and Nick meet for the first time
WWI ends in 1919
Gatsby Learns that Daisy Married Tom "In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before"(75).
Nick moves to West Egg in NY and meets up on East Egg with Daisy, Jordan, and Tom
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Daisy and Gatsby are dating
Nick and Jordan go to Gatsby's party and meet Jay Gatsby
Gatsby and Nick have Lunch in NYC
Nick meets Wolfsheire in the Speakeasy
Daisy and Gatsby meet at Nick's, then got to Gatsby's house and they fall in love again
Nick, Daisy, and Tom attend Gatsby's party
Gatsby stopped throwing parties
Tom, Nick, Daisy, Gatsby go out to lunch at Gatsby's the go downtown
Daisy panics and gets everyone to go downtown
Tom is putting pressure on Gatsby. Toms mistress and wife are now about to leave him
Gatsby rides with Daisy
Everyone is in the Plaza hotel
Tom is putting more pressure on Gatsby, asking him questions, and making personal remarks
Tom accuses Gatsby of "causing a row" and making love to his wife
Gatsby tells the truth about Daisy's allegiance . "She never loved you, do you hear"(130).
Gatsby almost attacks Tom
Tom and Gatsby begin to fight over daisy, first verbally but then eventually physically "Your wife, doesn't love you" pg. 130
Daisy says she loved tom but she loved gatsby too
Daisy is frightened by Gatsby attacking Tom
Daisy hits myrtle with the car
Myrtle thinks that Tom is driving by her house and is hit by Daisy, who was driving Tom's car
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Tom finds out that Myrtle was hit. Everyone thinks it was him that hit myrtle
Tom lies to wilson about fooling around with her
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Myrtle was moving West with Wilson
Tom is asking daisy if all that gatsby says is true " 'Not at Kapiolani?; demanded Tom suddenly. 'No.' ... 'Not that day I carried you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry?' "
"Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward" pg137
"She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me"(130)
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"She rushed into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting" pg137