The Great Gatsby Timeline
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The Great Gatsby Timeline
August 1917
Gatsby meets Daisy while stationed in Louisville, Kentucky during World War 2. They are in love and together for a little while.
1917
Louisville
Daisy and Gatsby
Daisy marries Tom
Daisy decides to marry Tom Buchanan, a wealthy football player from New Haven college.
1919
June, 1922
Nick Carraway rents a small house in West Egg, New York and becomes next door neighbors to The Great Gatsby
1922
Lunch
Nick has lunch with the Buchanans(Daisy and Tom) and meets Jordan Baker. Nick notices flaws in Jordan's personality and character. He finds her extremely mysterious from this first encounter with her.
Lunch
Motivation
Nick moved to New York in hopes to learn more about bond trading.
Motivation
August-September
Tom and Gatsby meet and Gatsby invites both Buchanans to his house party, which turns into a fail. Wilson kills Gatsby.
1922
The Affair
Although Daisy is married to Tom, he commits many accounts of adultery, that we see with a married woman named Myrtle Wilson, throughout the book. This causes Daisy to have an affair with her true love, Gatsby. However, Daisy decides to stay with Tom after learning about Gatsby's reason for wealth.
The Affair
Murder
Daisy runs over Myrtle Wilson with Gatsby's car and then Gatsby takes the blame. Tom tells Wilson that it was Gatsby who killed her.
The Murder
The Murder
NIck is in charge of Gatsby's funeral. Not many people show up except Owl Eyes and Gatsby's father, Henry Gatz.
The Funeral
Nicks Plan
After Tom tells Nick he told Wilson it was Gatsby that killed Myrtle, Nick decides to move back to the midwest and writes this story from his perspective.