When Do Gatsby and Daisy Meet Again

Sometimes, fifty-fifty when you've carefully read a volume and tried to follow all the intricacies of which graphic symbol did what and when, you simply can't quite put the whole thing together. That goes double for a novel similarThe Not bad Gatsby, which uses literary devices like flashbacks and flashforwards to explain the beliefs of its characters in its nowadays.

But don't fret! In this commodity, I've taken all of the novel'south events and rearranged them in straightforward, chronological order. This completeGreat Gatsby timeline allows yous to see exactly when all of the book's events took identify, and too get individual chronologies for each major character.

Why Make a Bang-up GatsbyTimeline?

There are several skillful reasons why a timeline that organizes the book's events is a useful tool.

First, a timeline jettisons potentially confusing fourth dimension-shifts. Even though the novel is told mostly chronologically, information technology has several flashbacks and flashforwards. The most notable flashbacks revolve effectually James Gatz's transformation into Jay Gatsby, and what happened between him and Daisy. Meanwhile, the flashforwards take united states into Nick'due south present-day framing narrative, subsequently his disenchanted return to the Midwest.

Second, reordering all of these events in a articulate chronology can help clarify the motivations and emotions behind character behavior. Putting Tom, Nick, and Gatsby's activities next can help with compare/contrast assignments past reframing your thoughts nigh what they were each going through at a item time.

Finally, a warning. Lookout out for other timelines out there on the spider web. I've constitute such mistakes as:

• Some timelines claim Gatsby was born in 1892 - merely this is wrong. Fitzgerald gives enough dates, ages, and other details to accurately determine the right years for the book'southward events.
• Some timelines merits that Dan Cody died in 1910 - again, incorrect.
• That Daisy and Gatsby showtime date occurred in August - nope, it'south Oct, which is important for the novel'southward seasons motif.

The Corking Gatsby Timeline

1851

Nick Carraway's grandfather's brother starts the hardware business concern that his family owns.

"the actual founder of my line was my granddaddy'south brother who came hither in fifty-i, sent a substitute to the Ceremonious War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today" (1.5)

1857

Dan Cody is born. (We know this because he is l years former when he meets Gatsby on Lake Superior in 1907.)

1890

James Gatz is born in N Dakota to Henry C. Gatz..  (We know this because he is 17 years sometime when he meets Dan Cody in 1907.)

"His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful subcontract people—his imagination had never actually accepted them as his parents at all." (6.7)

1892

Nick Carraway is built-in in a Midwestern metropolis. (We know this because he turns 30 in 1922, the summer the novel takes place.)

"My family take been prominent, well-to-do people in this center-western urban center for three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan" (i.5)

Tom Buchanan is born to a very prominent family in Chicago. (Nosotros know this because he is 30 during the summertime when the novel takes identify.)

"Now he was a sturdy, straw haired homo of 30 with a rather difficult mouth and a supercilious manner." (ane.19)

1899

Daisy Fay is built-in in Louisville, Kentucky. (We know this considering she is eighteen when she meets Gatsby in Louisville in 1917.)

"Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white…" (i.140)

1901

Jordan Baker is born in Louisville, Kentucky. (Nosotros know this because she says that Daisy is ii years older.)

"The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay's house. She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most pop of all the immature girls in Louisville." (four.130)

1902

Dan Cody, Gatsby's mentor, buys his yacht the Tuolomee and starts sailing. He does this to go away from Ella Kaye, his estranged 2d wife.

"The none besides savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were mutual cognition to the turgid journalism of 1902." (six.xi)

1906

James Gatz works as a clam digger and salmon fisher on Lake Superior, and tries to get to St. Olaf Lutheran College in southern Minnesota earlier dropping out two weeks subsequently unhappy to be working as a janitor to back up himself.

"For over a yr he had been beating his way forth the southward shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher ... An instinct toward his hereafter celebrity had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota. He stayed in that location 2 weeks ... despising the janitor'south work with which he was to pay his way through. So he drifted back to Lake Superior" (6.8-x)

1907

James Gatz, 17 years old, meets Dan Cody in Little Girl Bay on Lake Superior and changes his proper noun to Jay Gatsby.

"James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the historic period of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the get-go of his career—when he saw Dan Cody'due south yacht driblet anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior ... So he invented but the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-onetime boy would exist likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the finish." (6.6-6.7)

"Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silvery fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Seventy-five. The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire ... He had been coasting along all besides hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz's destiny at Little Daughter Bay." (6.11)

1907-1912

Gatsby sails the seas with Cody for five years.

"He was employed in a vague personal capacity—while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody [put] more than and more than trust in Gatsby ... The arrangement lasted five years during which the boat went three times around the continent." (6.13)

1910

Myrtle marries George Wilson. (We know this because Wilson tells Michaelis that he and Myrtle have been married 12 years past the summer of 1922 when the novel takes place.)

"I married him considering I thought he was a gentleman," she said finally. "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe….The but crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I fabricated a mistake." (2.112-116)

1911

Myrtle and George Wilson move into the apartment above the garage in the valley of ashes.

"They've been living over that garage for eleven years. And Tom's the first sweetie she ever had." (ii.117)

Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan become to Yale Academy. (We know this because they graduate in 1915.)

1912

Dan Cody dies in Boston. He leaves $25,000 to Gatsby, just Ella Kaye uses legal means to take abroad this inheritance.

Gatsby is penniless only has learned polished manners and how the rich operate.

1914

World State of war I begins.

1915

Nick Carraway graduates from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and goes to fight in WWI.

"I graduated from New Oasis in 1915, just a quarter of a century afterward my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War." (1.half-dozen)

Tom Buchanan also graduates from Yale Academy.

"one of the most powerful ends that e'er played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-ane that everything afterwards savors of anti-climax. … there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts" (1.xvi-20)

October 1917

Gatsby is stationed at Camp Taylor in Louisville, where he meets Daisy Fay (he is 27, she is xviii). They are together for a month, and he is shocked past how much in dearest with her he falls.

"He knew that Daisy was extraordinary ... He felt married to her, that was all." (8.13)

Jordan besides meets Gatsby.

"One October mean solar day in 19-seventeen - (said Jordan Baker that afternoon, sitting up very straight on a straight chair in the tea-garden at the Plaza Hotel) - I was walking ... to Daisy Fay'due south firm ... she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen earlier ... The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a manner that every young daughter wants to exist looked at erstwhile, and because information technology seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby" (four.129-133)

Wintertime 1917-1918

Gatsby leaves for Europe to fight in WWI.

Wild rumors were circulating about her—how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas. (4.134)

1918

Jordan becomes a professional golfer. She is later mired in a cheating scandal, but nothing is proven.

"That was xix-seventeen. Past the adjacent year I had a few beaux myself, and I began to play in tournaments" (4.134)

September 1918

Gatsby fights with distinction in the Argonne Battle, and then is promoted to Captain and then to Major. He also receives several medals.

"He did extraordinarily well in the war. He was a helm before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the control of the divisional machine guns." (eight.17)

1919

After Armistice, Gatsby spends five months at Oxford Academy in England, in a program for army officers.

"It was in nineteen-nineteen, I just stayed five months. That'southward why I can't actually call myself an Oxford human being ... Information technology was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the Armistice," he continued. "Nosotros could go to any of the universities in England or France."" (7.218-220)

June 1919

Despite some reluctance, Daisy marries Tom Buchanan.

""Tell 'em all Daisy'due south alter' her mine. Say 'Daisy's alter' her mine!'."

She began to weep—she cried and cried…Adjacent day at 5 o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver" (4.140-142)

Baronial 1919

Tom Buchanan has an matter with a chambermaid during the honeymoon.

"That was in August ... Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura route one dark ... The girl who was with him ... was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel." (4.143)

Oct 1919

Meyer Wolfshiem fixes the 1919 Globe Series.

"The idea staggered me …  if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that but happened, the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one homo could start to play with the faith of l 1000000 people" (four.115)

November 1919

Gatsby returns to Louisville while Daisy and Tom are on their multi-month honeymoon.

"He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together … He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But information technology was all going past too fast at present for his blurred optics and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the all-time, forever." (8.28-30)

Gatsby goes to New York and asks his future partner, Meyer Wolfsheim, for a job.

"I made him … I raised him up out of nada, correct out of the gutter. I saw right abroad he was a fine appearing, gentlemanly beau, and ... I knew I could use him expert. ... We were and then thick similar that in everything—" He held up two bulbous fingers "—always together." (9.85-87)

January 1920

Prohibition goes into effect through the passage of the 18th Amendment, which outlawed most kinds of alcohol. Prohibition spurs widespread undercover organized criminal offence (represented by Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby in the novel).

Apr 1920

Daisy gives birth to Pammy, and the Buchanans move to France.

"The next April Daisy had her little girl and they went to France for a year. I saw them one spring in Cannes and later in and then they came back to Chicago to settle down." (4.144)

1921

The Buchanans move to Chicago, where Nick visits them for 2 days, then to East Egg on Long Island, New York.

Spring 1922

Tom starts an thing with Myrtle Wilson.

"When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm—and so I told him I'd take to call a policeman, simply he knew I lied. I was then excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train." (ii.120)

June 1922

Nick decides to acquire bond trading in New York. He rents a small firm in West Egg, Long Isle, next door to Gatsby's mansion.

Nick has lunch with the Buchanans (Daisy is his cousin), and meets Jordan Baker.

Nick has a cursory relationship with a woman from Bailiwick of jersey Urban center.

"I even had a short affair with a daughter who lived in Bailiwick of jersey Urban center and worked in the accounting section, but her brother began throwing hateful looks in my management so when she went on her vacation in July I let it blow quietly abroad." (three.155)

July 2, 1922

Tom takes Nick to see Myrtle. They go to a Manhattan apartment, to a pocket-size political party that ends with Tom punching Myrtle in the face up for talking well-nigh Daisy. (Nosotros know the verbal engagement because Nick notes that information technology was 2 days before the 4th of July holiday.)

July 1922

Nick is invited to one of Gatsby's house parties and meets him. Also at the political party is Owl-Optics, the guest who enthuses almost Gatsby'south library.

"People were not invited—they went there. … they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all" (three.7)

Nick starts a relationship with Jordan Baker.

Gatsby takes Nick out to luncheon, where Nick meets Meyer Wolfshiem, and where Gatsby meets Tom.

Hashemite kingdom of jordan tells Nick that Gatsby and Daisy had been in love five years before.

Nick invites Daisy over for tea so that Gatsby can "driblet by" and he and Daisy reconnect.

Baronial 1922

A reporter comes by to investigate the rumors nearly Gatsby.

"It was a random shot, and notwithstanding the reporter's instinct was right. Gatsby'southward notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so get authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell but brusk of beingness news. " (half-dozen.5)

Tom Buchanan meets Gatsby when Tom stops by Gatsby's in the middle of a horseback ride.

"I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon. I hadn't been there 2 minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink ... Tom and a human named Sloane and a pretty adult female in a brown riding addiction" (vi.17-18)

Tom and Daisy come to Gatsby's next party, which Daisy hates.

Gatsby and Daisy begin their thing; Gatsby fires his staff and stops his parties.

"I hear you fired all your servants."

"I wanted somebody who wouldn't gossip. Daisy comes over quite oftentimes—in the afternoons."

Then the whole caravansary had fallen in similar a menu house at the disapproval in her eyes." (7.xiii-15)

Daisy invites Nick and Gatsby for lunch at her house. She and Gatsby plan to reveal their love to Tom, but instead in the unbearably hot twenty-four hour period, the group decides to become to Manhattan to the Plaza Hotel. At that place, Gatsby reveals the matter, and Tom reveals that Gatsby's money comes from offense. Daisy is unwilling to completely renounce Tom, which decimates Gatsby. Daisy decides to stay with Tom.

""Oh, y'all want also much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love yous now—isn't that plenty? I can't aid what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him in one case—only I loved you too."

Gatsby'south eyes opened and closed.

"You loved me also?" he repeated." (vii.264-266)

On the way dorsum from the hotel, Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson. That night, Tom convinces George Wilson that it was really Gatsby who killed Myrtle. Also that night, Gatsby decides that he will take the blame for Myrtle's death, and Nick and Jordan break up.

The next day, Tom and Daisy skip town for good.

Subsequently that day, Wilson shoots and kills Gatsby and and so himself.

September 1922

The murder-suicide is mischaracterized as the actions of a deranged grieving husband, and at that place is no mention of the Buchanans or of Myrtle's affair in the constabulary written report.

Gatsby'south father, Henry Gatz comes to the funeral from Minnesota.

"a solemn onetime man very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster confronting the warm September day. His eyes leaked continuously with excitement" (9.33)

Nick can't find anyone else to come to the funeral. Even Wolfshiem refuses to come.

"Let us learn to evidence our friendship for a homo when he is alive and not subsequently he is dead" (9.99)

Owl-eyes is the simply other person who comes to the funeral.

October 1922

Nick hashes things out with Jordan.

Nick runs into Tom in Manhattan, where Tom confesses to telling Wilson that Gatsby was driving the car that killed Myrtle.

Nov 1922

Completely disillusioned and horrified, Nick moves back home to the Midwest.

"West Egg especially still figures in my more fantastic dreams. I run across information technology as a nighttime scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon." (ix.126)

1924

Nick writes the story most Gatsby and that fateful summer - this story is the novel that nosotros are reading.

"Afterwards two years I recollect the rest of that twenty-four hours, and that nighttime and the side by side 24-hour interval, only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby's forepart door. ... When I came dorsum from the East terminal autumn I felt that I wanted the world to exist in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more than riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. But Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this volume, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I accept an unaffected scorn." (9.1-4)

The whole novel is basically Nick's furious journaling about his formative summer.

Individual Character Timelines

If y'all're writing a grapheme analysis, or comparison two characters to each other, it may help to have those characters' biographies split from the novel as a whole.

Jay Gatsby Timeline

• James Gatz is born in 1890 in North Dakota.
• In 1907, after a twelvemonth of clam digging and fishing and two weeks at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, James Gatz changes his proper noun to Jay Gatsby and meets Dan Cody.
• Gatsby sails with Dan Cody from 1907 to 1912, when he loses the inheritance Cody wanted to exit him to Cody's married woman.
• In October 1917, Daisy and Gatsby meet in Louisville and date for a month, before Gatsby ships out to fight in WWI.
• Gatsby fights with distinction, is promoted to Major, and gets several medals.
• In 1919, he spends five months studying at Oxford University, and so returns to the states and gets a job with Meyer Wolfshiem.
• Gatsby buys a firm across the bay from Daisy and Tom.
• Gatsby takes Nick out to lunch, where Nick meets Meyer Wolfshiem, and where Gatsby meets Tom.
• Nick invites Daisy over for tea and so that Gatsby can "drop past" and he and Daisy reconnect.
• Gatsby and Daisy brainstorm their thing; Gatsby fires his staff and stops his parties.
• Daisy is unwilling to completely renounce Tom, which decimates Gatsby. Daisy decides to stay with Tom.
• Daisy, driving Gatsby's motorcar, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson.

Nick Carraway Timeline

• Nick Carraway is born in 1892 in a Midwestern city.
• Nick goes to Yale University from 1911 to 1915, at the same time as Tom Buchanan.
• After graduation, Nick goes off to fight in WWI.
• In the summer of 1922, Nick moves to Westward Egg, New York, to sell bonds. He rents a firm next door to Gatsby.
• Nick starts dating Jordan Bakery and meets Tom's mistress.
• Gatsby takes Nick out to luncheon, where Nick meets Meyer Wolfshiem, and where Gatsby meets Tom.
• Nick moves back to the Midwest in the fall of 1922.
• Nick invites Daisy over for tea and then that Gatsby can "drop past" and he and Daisy reconnect.
• Nick breaks up with Jordan when she is completely unmoved by Myrtle'due south death.
• Nick ends upwardly being in accuse of Gatsby's funeral and can't find anyone to come.
• Completely disillusioned and horrified, Nick moves dorsum home to the Midwest.
• Two years later, in 1924, Nick writes the story that is the novel we are reading.

Daisy Buchanan Timeline

• Daisy Fay is born in 1899 in Louisville, Kentucky. She grows up friends with Jordan Baker.
• In Oct 1917, Daisy and Gatsby encounter in Louisville and appointment for a month, before Gatsby ships out to fight in WWI.
• Daisy marries Tom Buchanan in June 1919.
• In 1920, Daisy gives birth to Pammy, and the Buchanans move to France for a twelvemonth, before coming back to Chicago, and then to East Egg.
• Nick invites Daisy over for tea so that Gatsby tin can "drop past" and he and Daisy reconnect.
• Gatsby and Daisy brainstorm their affair.
• Daisy is unwilling to completely renounce Tom, which decimates Gatsby. Daisy decides to stay with Tom.
• Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson.
• The next 24-hour interval, Tom and Daisy skip town for expert.

Tom Buchanan Timeline

• Tom Buchanan is born in 1892 in Chicago, Illinois.
• Tom goes to Yale University from 1911 to 1915, where he is a star football game player.
• Daisy marries Tom Buchanan in June 1919. On their honeymoon, he has his start affair.
• In 1920, Daisy gives nascence to Pammy, and the Buchanans move to France for a year, before coming back to Chicago, and and so to East Egg.
• In the spring of 1922, Tom starts an matter with Myrtle Wilson.
• In early summertime, Nick comes to dinner at Tom and Daisy's business firm, where Tom praises a recent racist volume.
• On July 2, 1922, Tom takes Nick to run across Myrtle. They become to a Manhattan flat, to a small political party that ends with Tom punching Myrtle in the face for talking near Daisy.
• In August, Tom meets Gatsby when Tom stops by Gatsby's in the middle of a horseback ride.
• Daisy is unwilling to completely renounce Tom, which decimates Gatsby. Daisy decides to stay with Tom.
• Afterwards Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson, Tom convinces Wilson that the motorcar's driver was actually Gatsby.
• The next twenty-four hours, Tom and Daisy skip town for adept.
• In Oct, Nick runs into Tom in Manhattan, where Tom confesses to telling Wilson that Gatsby was driving the car that killed Myrtle.

Myrtle Wilson Timeline

• In 1910, Myrtle marries George Wilson.
• Myrtle and George movement into the apartment above the garage in 1911.
• In the leap of 1922, Tom starts an matter with Myrtle Wilson.
• On July two, 1922, Tom takes Nick to meet Myrtle. They go to a Manhattan flat, to a modest political party that ends with Tom punching Myrtle in the face up for talking virtually Daisy.
• George figures out that Myrtle is having an affair. He locks her in their house until he tin can become enough coin to leave the metropolis.
• Trying to escape, Myrtle runs out toward Gatsby's automobile because she thinks Tom is driving.
• Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson.

George Wilson Timeline

• In 1910, Myrtle marries George Wilson.
• Myrtle and George movement into the apartment to a higher place the garage in 1911.
• In the summertime of 1922, George tries repeatedly to convince Tom to sell his car to George and so that George tin can resell it.
• George figures out that Myrtle is having an affair. He locks her in their business firm until he tin can get enough money to leave the metropolis.
• Daisy, driving Gatsby'due south motorcar, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson, which completely devastates and unhinges George.
• The next mean solar day, George Wilson shoots and kills Gatsby so himself.

 What'southward Adjacent

Read our summary of the novel's plot in the order that information technology happens.

Learn the significance behind the novel'due south title, itsbeginning, and its catastrophe.

Use your newfound understanding of the characters' lives to get more meaning out of our overview of the characters or dive deeper with our detailed character analyses.

Learn the background of and context for the novel in our explanations of the history of the composition of the book and the biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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