Great Gatsby
Chapter 6
Then Nick noted
that newspaper reporters soon started to appear at Gatsby’s home to try to
interview him. And Gatsby told the truth about himself. His real name was James
Gatz, and he was born to an impoverished farmer in North Dakota. He had his
named legally changed to Jay Gatsby at the age of seventeen. Though he did
attend St Olaf's, a small college in Minnesota, he dropped out after two weeks,
as he could not bear working as a janitor in order to pay his tuition. Gatsby's
dreams of self-improvement were only intensified by his relationship with Dan
Cody, a man whom he met while working as a fisherman on Lake Superior. Cody was
then fifty, a self-made millionaire who had made his fortune during the Yukon
gold rush. Cody took Gatsby in and made the young man his personal assistant.
On their subsequent voyages to the West Indies and the Barbary Coast, Gatsby
became even more passionately covetous of wealth and privilege. When Cody died,
Gatsby inherited $25,000; he was unable to claim it, however, due to the
malicious intervention of Cody's mistress, Ella Kaye. Afterward, Gatsby vowed
to become a success in his own right. For a few weeks, Nick didn’t see Gatsby.
Then Gatsby turned up at his house. A few moments later, Tom Buchanan also
showed up unexpectedly with some friends, the Sloanes. Gatsby invited Tom and
his friends to stay for dinner. They refused, but did an invitation in return
and Gatsby accepted. The next Saturday night, Tom and Daisy came to a party.
Tom was disdainful of the party, and though Daisy and Gatsby danced together
she also seemed to have a bad time. Tom and Daisy went home. After the party, Gatsby was depressed. Nick reminded
him that the past was impossible to repeat, but Gatsby disagreed. Nick realized
that Gatsby wanted Daisy to tell Tom that she had never loved him
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Nick noted that THE newspaper reporters soon started to appear
Gatsby invited Tom and his friends to stay for A dinner
Tom was disdainful FOR the party