Dan Cody

Dan Cody is essentially the man who made James Gatz become Jay Gatsby. After dropping out of college, Gatsby returned to Lake Superior, where he had grown up. While lounging on the beach one day, he met Dan Cody and his yacht.

Description of Cody hints of criminal activity, so Cody may have inspired Gatsby's bootleg business as well. This may have also been because although Cody left Gatsby $25,000 when he died, Gatsby never got any of it. Thus, with no resources and only a new name, Gatsby turned to crime to make his fortune for Daisy.Dan Cody was an enormously wealthy old man, a millionaire many times over, who had earned his fortune mining silver.

Dan Cody is largely responsible for who Jay Gatsby ended up becoming. If it wasnt for Dan Cody Jay would have stood a poor man only longing for Daisy. With Dan Cody's help Jay turned into a wealthy man and got Daisy back for a period of time.

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East Egg vs West Egg

East Egg and West Egg are peninsulas located on Long Island. In actuallity they are not really called by these names, Fitzgerald thought they look like eggs so he fictitiously called them so. West Egg is now known as the Great Neck and East Egg is commonly known as Manhasset Neck. The two towns are located on the eastern side of Long Island.

Long Island as a whole is divided into East and West Long Island, but in the book the action is divided between East and West Egg. East Egg is where people with "old money" live. West Egg is where people with "new money" live. People of the West Egg are average middle class people that have somehow found money and use it to get anything they want. Where as the people of the East Egg are aristocrats and spend money wisely or save it. The East Egg people resent the West Egg people for this reason.

Look at Gatsbyas an example for East Egg. He earns his money through bootlegging. He then spends it on elaborate parties, buying gifts for people, and trying to impress Daisy. Where as the Buchanan's in the West Egg spend little money. Yes their home elgant and expensive but that is what they spend their money, their home, as a possed to cars and parties.

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The Women of Gatsby

Daisy-Daisy is Nick's cousin, Tom's wife, and she is also the women Gatsby is in love with. Daisy is a very selfish person. All she cares about is herself and her status in society. She also is a golddigger because she married Tom because he came from a wealthy family. She is having an affair with Jay Gatsby because he loves her and she loves the attention. She was supposed to wait for him but she broke her promise to marry Tom.

Jordan Baker-"She is a longtime friend of Daisy. Jordan is a professional golfer who cheated in order to win her first tournament. She is extremly cynical, with a masculine, icy demeanor that Nick in itially finds compelling. They become briefly involved, but Jordan rejects him because he is as corrupt and decadent as she is."

Myrtle Wilson- She is the wife of George Wilson who owns a gas station.She does not love her husband whatsoever. She is very unsatisfied with her life because she was no wealth and therefore no status in society. She has been having a longtime affair with Tom, Daisys husband, and is very jealous of Daisy. After a fight she has with her husband she runs out into the street and gets hit by a car and dies.

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