James Gatz to Jay Gatsby

Born by the name of James Gatz, the young boy is born in North Dakota to a pair of farmhands

Gatsby began his rise to greatness when he attended St. Olaf Lutheran college. He worked as a janitor to pay his way through, but only stayed for two weeks, because he did not like doing this humbling work

While looking for something to do with his life after dropping out of college, Dan Cody, a fifty-year-old millionaire, who was traveling for five years along different seashores. He arrives and byes him the outfit of a professional yacht user and takes Gatsby with him

At the age of seventeen, James Gatz decisively changes his name to Jay Gatsby. This is a title that surely offered more grandeur and a passage to a life of luxury

Gatsby lives as a steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor while Cody is drinking. Through this, he gained an immeasurable amount of trust from Cody

After traveling around the continent multiple times for five years, Dan Cody dies and leaves Gatsby to find a new way of life for himself, though he will take the experiences and lifestyle from the trip and integrate them into his own life

Cody’s will goes to a newspaper lady, Cody’s love interest, Ella Kaye. Gatsby is then left without millions of dollars and must find a new way to live.

Finding himself still without a fortune or riches going up and down the East Coast, Gatsby begins to wonder if under the table work would do him better

Gatsby moves to New York hoping to find new opportunities in a city of dreams, but to no avail, as he ends up as a busboy at different establishments for a few years, couch surfs, and is ultimately on the streets

Left without many options, Gatsby believes he can build his leadership skills and make his way in the world by entering into the armed forces as the US prepares for World War I