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The life and adventures of Jay Gatsby, ordered chronologically in a timeline, along with other important events of the day.

LINK: http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/The-History-of-Jay-Gatsby

If you want to see the events on the timeline unjumbled click on the more info available at xtimeline.com link at the bottom of the event.

Reflection/Reference

To create this timeline I first had to find the dates, more specifically years, in which Gatsby's exploits occurred. Using the date 1902, when Dan Cody first set sail, and the fact that Dan Cody sailed for five years before he met Gatsby, I was able to determine that Gatsby came aboard his yacht in 1907. Because the novel specified that Gatsby was seventeen at the time he went off with Cody, I was then able to determine that he was born in 1890. Another string of dates I was able to determine were the 1906 activities Gatsby took part in because the novel said he was on his own for a year before he met Dan Cody. The events involving Daisy and Gatsby were easier to determine because it is mentioned many times in the novel that they met five years before 1922, present day in the story. I chose the other important historical events based on their significance to the story (i.e. Prohibition and WWI), and researched them accordingly.