The Great Gatsby Timeline

The Great Gatsby Timeline

Nick has tea with Jordan Baker

Nick, Gatsby and Daisy have tea

Nick Daisy and Gatsby go to Gatsby's house

Daisy told Gatsby she had loved him

Nick Carraway meets Gatsby

Nick Carraway gets invited to Gatsby's

Nick Carraway meets Tom's mistress

Nick Carraway moves to West Egg

Gatsby tells Nick "God's truth"

Gatsby's true past is revealed

Nick has tea with Jordan Baker at the Plaza Hotel and she explains on one October day in 1917 she had seen an officer in Daisy's car who turned out to be Gatsby and how they were so engrossed in each other in a romantic way.After that there were rumors circulating that she was packing her bags to go to New York and say good-bye to a soldier who was going overseas but was prevented and became very sad. The next autumn she became happy again and was engaged to Tom and married in June but the day before the wedding Daisy had received a letter which mad her tirelessly upset but eventually made Tom. This explanation that was given by Jordan is significant because it is revealed that Daisy and Gatsby had a history and something had gone wrong with it. It was also revealed that it wasn't a coincidence that Gatsby had moved across the bay from Daisy's and that he requested for Nick to invite Daisy for tea and let him come over.

Pages 72-77

After the tea at Nick's house Gatsby wants Daisy and Nick to go to his house to show Daisy where he lived. As they are walking through the house the love Gatsby has for Daisy is prominent and the green light that burns at the end of Daisy's dock was reflective of the distance that he had between Daisy and having her there close to him was like having the light burn nearby'. It was as Gatsby and Daisy were reconciling their love in his house.Also Nick sees the portrait of Dan Cody which Gatsby explains to him that he was his best friend which later becomes a turning point of who Gatsby really is.

Pages 88-90

After Nick had agreed to Gatsby that he would invite Daisy to tea, Gatsby goes over to Nick's before she arrives. As Daisy arrives and sees Gatsby they reconcile their relationship and are completely engaged in each other that they don't even hear the noise that Nick had made in the kitchen, they were in a complete trance. This was a turning point in the book because Daisy and Gatsby were reconciling their relationship which may be the catalyst of Daisy falling in love with him again.

Pages 81-86

Through the people that had accepted Gatsby's hospitality during the summer, there were rumors that had been said by them about his past which a few turned out to be true. The truth was that Gatsby was legally named James Gatz who lived in North Dakota and his parents were unsuccessful farm people and he had this imagination of himself that he was someone of a much higher standard with a greater destiny and became this dignified person of Jay Gatsby. One day he had met Dan Cody on a boat and became best friends with him and when Cody died he received twenty-five thousand inheritance money. He had told all of this to Nick much at later at a time of confusion which was a turning point for NIck as what Gatsby had told him before about his life was not faintly true.

Pages 94-97

As Tom,Nick and Gatsby were at the Buchanan's house for lunch on a very hot day, Gatsby's and Daisy's eyes had met after she had said "You looks so cool" and they were staring at each other and as Daisy glanced down at the table she repeated "You always look so cool" and that it when Daisy and told Gatsby she had loved him and Tom had saw. This was a significant turning point as Tom had realized that his marriage was falling apart and out of his control.

Page 113

On the Saturday morning of the night of Gatsby's party a chauffeur in a uniform presents a formal note to Nick from his employer which said that it would be an honor for Gatsby if he came to his 'little party' that evening.

Page 43

During the evening Nick meets people who say that Gatsby once killed a man and that he was a German spy in the war but when Nick was sitting on a table with Jordan Baker and a man of his age him and this man break into conversation about how they were both in the war and later introduces himself as Gatsby. This is a turning point in the text as this meeting would change Nick's summer.

Nick went to New York with Tom on a train one afternoon and stopped at a garage named "George B. Wilson. Cars bought and sold." At the garage they meet Wilson the owner and his wife Myrtle Wilson who Nick meets as Tom's mistress so then Nick would view him as unfaithful and unreliable.

Page 28

Nick decided to move East in the spring of 1922 to be in the bond business as all his friends are in the bonds business. A but young man at his office suggested they find a house together which they did but Nick ends up alone as the young man gets called to Washington. He moves into a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow in West Egg which is the less fashionable side. His place is next door from Mr. Gatsby's mansion and across from East Egg the more fashionable side where Tom and Daisy Buchanan live. Tom being his friend from college and Daisy his second cousin twice removed.

Pages 9-11

On one morning in late July Gatsby shows up to Nick's house with his car and suggests they ride up together for lunch. During that drive Gatsby tells Nick the "God's truth" about his life. He says that he was the son of wealthy people in the Middle West who are all dead now and that he was educated at Oxford and Nick had identified that he may be lying about Oxford cause of the way he said it. He also says that when his family died he came into a great deal of money and that he had lived around various places in Europe. In the war he got an award from Montenegro. Gatsby said this introduction for Nick to know that he was a somebody and that he was going to make a big request for him to have tea with Jordan. This introduction was important as Nick starts to form a picture of who Gatsby is.

Pages 63-66

The Plaza Hotel argument

Myrtle Wilson was killed by Gatsby's car

Tom tells Nick that he told Wilson "the truth"

Wilson arrives at Gatsby's house and kills him

Nick goes to Gatsby's house one last time

Nick finds out that Daisy killed Myrtle

Gatsby's funeral

Daisy leaves East Egg

Gatsby tells Nick of his youth

Nick saw Tom walking on Fifth Avenue and Tom tells Nick that he had told Wilson that Gatsby killed Myrtle. This was a turning point because this information that Wilson had obtained was the catalyst to Gatsby's death.

Page 169

Nick called up Daisy's house half an hour after he had found Gatsby dead and found out that the Buchanan's had left East Egg with no way of contacting them. This was a turning point because the love of Gatsby wasn't reciprocated by Daisy and his death wasn't even worth it.

Page 156

At the Plaza Hotel Tom asks Gatsby what sort of row he is trying to cause in his house and Daisy says that he is not causing any row and to have self control. This causes Tom to snap and he shouts "Self control! I suppose the latest thing is to let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife and if that's the idea you can count me out" Then Gatsby reveals to Tom that Daisy had never loved him and that she loves him which Daisy admits that she did once love Tom and Gatsby at the same time and also says to Gatsby that she loves him now. This was a turning point for Gatsby as he finally knew how Daisy felt about him which bought him reassurance.

At Gatsby's funeral there was the minister, his Dad and surprisingly the old man with the owl-eyed glasses who was marveling over Gatsby's books. The arrival of the old man was a turning point because nobody else had come beforehand to his house.

Page 165

As Nick was walking twenty yards Gatsby stepped between two bushes and revealed to him that Daisy was the one behind the wheel and had killed Myrtle which Gatsby would take the fall for. This was a turning point in the text because Gatsby was falsely accused as everyone would assume that Gatsby was driving because it was his car that had killed Myrtle

Pages 136-137

On a strange night Gatsby tells Nick of his youth with Dan Cody and how he met Daisy. It was revealed that he wasn't able to return to Daisy because of some complication or misunderstanding that had sent him to Oxford. This is a turning point in the text because we finally know why their relationship went wrong and why they were forced to be apart.

Pages 141-146

Daisy and Gatsby left the Plaza Hotel and after wards Jordan, Nick and Tom. As Jordan, Nick and Tom were driving past Wilson's garage there was a big crowd and they had stopped to see that Myrtle Wilson had been killed instantly by a car. It was revealed that it was a yellow car just like Gatsby's and Tom was convinced that Gatsby had killed Myrtle

Pages 132-134

On his last night in West Egg Nick goes back to Gatsby's house he thought of Gatsby's wonder about the green light which represented a dream so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it and Gatsby was unaware that his dream was already behind him. This was a turning point because Nick was able to understand Gatsby's belief in the green light.

Page 171

While Gatsby was anxiously waiting for a call and hoping it was Daisy, Wilson was convinced that Gatsby had killed his wife and he made his way to Gatsby's and shot him. This is a turning point because Gatsby had died an innocent man for the one he loved.

Pages 153-154