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The Great Gatsby Timeline
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Gatsby is born
1890
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James Gatz is born in North Dakota.
Significance: the entire story revolves around Gatsby.
Nick Carraway is born
1892
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Since Nick is 30 in 1922, ("I'm thirty, five years too old to lie" - chapter 9) he was born in 1892.
The Spanish-American war breaks out over territories in Cuba
1898
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Daisy Fay is born
1899
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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 trek.
1902
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"Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902." (Chapter 6)
Gatsby joins Cody in Girl Bay and sails the seas.
1907
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At the age of 17, Gatsby joins Cody in Girl Bay and sails the seas with him for five years.
"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."(chapter 6)
Dan Cody dies.
1912
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"The arrangement lasted five years…….one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died."(chapter 6)
World War I begins.
1914
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Nick Carraway graduates from New Haven.
1915
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Nick Carraway graduates from New Haven (Yale University) at the age of 23.
"I graduated from New Haven in 1915" (chapter 1) and since he was born in 1892, in 1915 he is 23.
World War I start
1917
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The United States of America enters World War I, and Jay Gatsby fights for his country.
Daisy and Gatsby meet in Louisville
August 1917
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Daisy is 18 and Gatsby is 27 at that time.
"Her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before….His name was Jay Gatsby."
"The largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay's house. She was just eighteen."(chapter 4)
and since Gatsby was 17 in 1907, he is 27 in 1917.
Jordan meets Gatsby
October 1917
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Alcohol is prohibited
1919
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The 18th amendment of the constitution is ratified, prohibiting the sale of liquor.
Jay Gatsby meets his future partner, Meyer Wolfsheim.
1919
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"I remember when I first met him, a young major just out of the army." (chapter 9)
Meyer Wolfsheim fixes the 1919 World's Series.
1919
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"Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he's a gambler. He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919." (chapter 4)
Daisy's presumed engagement
February 1919
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Daisy marries Tom Buchanan
June 1919
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Gatsby and Daisy meet again
August 01, 1922
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The reporter comes to investigate Gatsby
August 03,1922
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Tom goes to Gatsby's house
August 25,1922
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The final trip to New York
August 31, 1922
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Gatsby's death
September 01,1922
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The main time period of the book in which most of it takes place. Jay Gatsby dies at the age of 32.
The Funeral
September 06, 1922
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Nick tells the story of Gatsby
1924
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Nick Carraway, (with help from F. Scott Fitzgerald) tells the reader the story of The Great Gatsby.
"After two years, I remember the rest of that day." (chapter 9)