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Sometimes, even when you've carefully read a book and tried to follow all the intricacies of which graphic symbol did what and when, you just can't quite put the whole thing together. That goes double for a novel likeThe Bang-up Gatsby, which uses literary devices like flashbacks and flashforwards to explicate the behavior of its characters in its present.

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

Why Make a Great GatsbyTimeline?

At that place are several good reasons why a timeline that organizes the volume'due south events is a useful tool.

First, a timeline jettisons potentially confusing time-shifts. Even though the novel is told mostly chronologically, it 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 u.s. into Nick's nowadays-day framing narrative, afterward his disenchanted return to the Midwest.

Second, reordering all of these events in a clear chronology can help clarify the motivations and emotions behind character behavior. Putting Tom, Nick, and Gatsby'southward activities side by side can aid with compare/contrast assignments by reframing your thoughts about what they were each going through at a detail time.

Finally, a warning. Scout out for other timelines out at that place on the web. I've institute such mistakes as:

• Some timelines merits Gatsby was born in 1892 - but this is wrong. Fitzgerald gives enough dates, ages, and other details to accurately determine the right years for the book'due south events.
• Some timelines claim that Dan Cody died in 1910 - again, wrong.
• That Daisy and Gatsby first appointment occurred in August - nope, information technology's October, which is important for the novel'south seasons motif.

The Great Gatsby Timeline

1851

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

"the actual founder of my line was my grandfather'south brother who came here in 50-one, sent a substitute to the Civil State of war and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today" (1.5)

1857

Dan Cody is born. (Nosotros know this because he is 50 years old when he meets Gatsby on Lake Superior in 1907.)

1890

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

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

1892

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

"My family have been prominent, well-to-practice people in this middle-western metropolis for iii generations. The Carraways are something of a association" (1.v)

Tom Buchanan is born to a very prominent family unit in Chicago. (We know this because he is xxx during the summer when the novel takes place.)

"At present he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner." (one.19)

1899

Daisy Fay is born in Louisville, Kentucky. (We know this considering she is 18 when she meets Gatsby in Louisville in 1917.)

"Our white girlhood was passed together at that place. Our cute white…" (one.140)

1901

Jordan Bakery is born in Louisville, Kentucky. (We know this because she says that Daisy is two years older.)

"The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay'due south house. She was just xviii, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the immature girls in Louisville." (4.130)

1902

Dan Cody, Gatsby'southward mentor, buys his yacht the Tuolomee and starts sailing. He does this to get away from Ella Kaye, his estranged second married woman.

"The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the paper adult female, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to ocean in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid journalism of 1902." (6.11)

1906

James Gatz works as a mollusk digger and salmon fisher on Lake Superior, and tries to become to St. Olaf Lutheran College in southern Minnesota before dropping out two weeks afterwards unhappy to exist working as a janitor to support himself.

"For over a year he had been beating his way along the due south shore of Lake Superior every bit 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 there two weeks ... despising the janitor'south work with which he was to pay his way through. Then he drifted dorsum to Lake Superior" (6.8-10)

1907

James Gatz, 17 years old, meets Dan Cody in Trivial Girl Bay on Lake Superior and changes his name 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 beginning of his career—when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drib anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior ... And so he invented merely the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-twelvemonth-sometime boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the finish." (6.6-vi.7)

"Cody was fifty years erstwhile then, a production of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Lxx-five. The transactions in Montana copper that fabricated him many times a millionaire ... He had been benumbed along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz'south destiny at Little Girl Bay." (six.eleven)

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 and more trust in Gatsby ... The arrangement lasted five years during which the gunkhole went three times around the continent." (6.xiii)

1910

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

"I married him because I idea he was a gentleman," she said finally. "I idea he knew something about breeding, just he wasn't fit to lick my shoe….The just crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a fault." (two.112-116)

1911

Myrtle and George Wilson move into the flat higher up 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." (two.117)

Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan go to Yale University. (We know this considering they graduate in 1915.)

1912

Dan Cody dies in Boston. He leaves $25,000 to Gatsby, only Ella Kaye uses legal ways to take away this inheritance.

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

1914

World War I begins.

1915

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

"I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my begetter, and a petty afterward I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known every bit the Cracking War." (1.six)

Tom Buchanan also graduates from Yale Academy.

"one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Oasis—a national figure in a way, one of those men who achieve such an acute limited excellence at xx-one that everything subsequently savors of anti-climax. … in that location were men at New Haven who had hated his guts" (1.xvi-twenty)

October 1917

Gatsby is stationed at Army camp Taylor in Louisville, where he meets Daisy Fay (he is 27, she is 18). They are together for a month, and he is shocked by how much in love with her he falls.

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

Jordan also meets Gatsby.

"Ane October day in nineteen-seventeen - (said Hashemite kingdom of 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's house ... she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before ... The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a fashion that every young girl wants to be looked at erstwhile, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His proper name was Jay Gatsby" (4.129-133)

Winter 1917-1918

Gatsby leaves for Europe to fight in WWI.

Wild rumors were circulating most her—how her mother had constitute her packing her bag i winter dark to get to New York and say bye to a soldier who was going overseas. (four.134)

1918

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

"That was nineteen-seventeen. By the next twelvemonth I had a few beaux myself, and I began to play in tournaments" (4.134)

September 1918

Gatsby fights with stardom in the Argonne Battle, and so is promoted to Helm and so to Major. He also receives several medals.

"He did extraordinarily well in the state of war. He was a helm before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his bulk and the control of the bounded auto guns." (8.17)

1919

Later Armistice, Gatsby spends five months at Oxford University in England, in a programme for army officers.

"It was in 19-nineteen, I just stayed 5 months. That'south why I tin can't really call myself an Oxford human ... It was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the Ceasefire," he continued. "Nosotros could go to any of the universities in England or French republic."" (7.218-220)

June 1919

Despite some reluctance, Daisy marries Tom Buchanan.

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

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

August 1919

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

"That was in August ... Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night ... 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 World Series.

"The idea staggered me …  if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a matter that only happened, the stop of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that ane man could starting time to play with the faith of 50 million people" (four.115)

November 1919

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

"He stayed in that location a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together … He stretched out his hand desperately every bit if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. Merely it was all going by besides fast now for his blurred optics and he knew that he had lost that part of information technology, the freshest and the best, forever." (8.28-30)

Gatsby goes to New York and asks his futurity partner, Meyer Wolfsheim, for a chore.

"I made him … I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter. I saw right abroad he was a fine appearing, gentlemanly young man, and ... I knew I could use him good. ... We were and then thick similar that in everything—" He held up two bulbous fingers "—e'er together." (nine.85-87)

January 1920

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

April 1920

Daisy gives nascency 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 afterwards in and so they came back to Chicago to settle downward." (4.144)

1921

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

Spring 1922

Tom starts an affair with Myrtle Wilson.

"When we came into the station he was adjacent to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm—and and then I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied. I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train." (2.120)

June 1922

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

Nick has dejeuner with the Buchanans (Daisy is his cousin), and meets Hashemite kingdom of jordan Bakery.

Nick has a brief relationship with a woman from Jersey City.

"I even had a short thing with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, merely her blood brother began throwing mean looks in my direction and so when she went on her vacation in July I let information technology accident quietly abroad." (three.155)

July two, 1922

Tom takes Nick to meet Myrtle. They become to a Manhattan flat, to a small political party that ends with Tom punching Myrtle in the confront for talking about Daisy. (Nosotros know the verbal date because Nick notes that it was two days earlier the quaternary of July holiday.)

July 1922

Nick is invited to ane of Gatsby's house parties and meets him. Also at the party is Owl-Optics, the guest who enthuses most Gatsby's 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 lunch, where Nick meets Meyer Wolfshiem, and where Gatsby meets Tom.

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

Nick invites Daisy over for tea so that Gatsby can "drib past" and he and Daisy reconnect.

August 1922

A reporter comes by to investigate the rumors nigh Gatsby.

"It was a random shot, and nevertheless the reporter's instinct was correct. Gatsby's notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality then go authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news. " (vi.five)

Tom Buchanan meets Gatsby when Tom stops by Gatsby'southward in the eye of a horseback ride.

"I went over to his business firm one Lord's day afternoon. I hadn't been there two minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink ... Tom and a human being named Sloane and a pretty woman in a chocolate-brown riding habit" (six.17-18)

Tom and Daisy come up to Gatsby'due south next party, which Daisy hates.

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

"I hear you lot fired all your servants."

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

So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card business firm at the disapproval in her eyes." (7.thirteen-15)

Daisy invites Nick and Gatsby for lunch at her house. She and Gatsby program to reveal their love to Tom, but instead in the unbearably hot mean solar day, the group decides to go to Manhattan to the Plaza Hotel. There, Gatsby reveals the thing, and Tom reveals that Gatsby'due south money comes from crime. Daisy is unwilling to completely renounce Tom, which decimates Gatsby. Daisy decides to stay with Tom.

""Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love y'all now—isn't that plenty? I can't aid what's by." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once—but I loved you too."

Gatsby's eyes opened and closed.

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

On the way back from the hotel, Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson. That nighttime, Tom convinces George Wilson that information technology was really Gatsby who killed Myrtle. Besides that dark, Gatsby decides that he will take the blame for Myrtle's death, and Nick and Hashemite kingdom of jordan intermission up.

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

Later on that day, Wilson shoots and kills Gatsby and then himself.

September 1922

The murder-suicide is mischaracterized as the actions of a deranged grieving hubby, and there is no mention of the Buchanans or of Myrtle's matter in the constabulary report.

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

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

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

"Permit u.s. acquire to show our friendship for a human being when he is alive and not after he is expressionless" (9.99)

Owl-eyes is the just 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 automobile that killed Myrtle.

November 1922

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

"W Egg peculiarly notwithstanding figures in my more fantastic dreams. I see it every bit a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon." (9.126)

1924

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

"After two years I recollect the residuum of that day, and that dark and the adjacent day, merely as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby'south front end door. ... When I came back from the East final autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human centre. Only Gatsby, the homo who gives his name to this volume, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." (nine.1-4)

The whole novel is basically Nick's furious journaling nearly his formative summertime.

Individual Character Timelines

If you're writing a character analysis, or comparison two characters to each other, it may help to have those characters' biographies separate from the novel as a whole.

Jay Gatsby Timeline

• James Gatz is born in 1890 in North Dakota.
• In 1907, later on a year of mollusk digging and fishing and two weeks at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, James Gatz changes his proper name 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 wife.
• In October 1917, Daisy and Gatsby meet in Louisville and date for a calendar 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, then returns to united states of america and gets a job with Meyer Wolfshiem.
• Gatsby buys a house beyond 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 then that Gatsby tin "driblet past" and he and Daisy reconnect.
• Gatsby and Daisy begin their affair; 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 car, 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 equally Tom Buchanan.
• Subsequently graduation, Nick goes off to fight in WWI.
• In the summer of 1922, Nick moves to West Egg, New York, to sell bonds. He rents a house next door to Gatsby.
• Nick starts dating Jordan Baker and meets Tom'south mistress.
• Gatsby takes Nick out to lunch, where Nick meets Meyer Wolfshiem, and where Gatsby meets Tom.
• Nick moves back to the Midwest in the autumn of 1922.
• Nick invites Daisy over for tea so that Gatsby tin "drop past" and he and Daisy reconnect.
• Nick breaks upwardly with Jordan when she is completely unmoved by Myrtle'southward death.
• Nick ends upwardly beingness in charge of Gatsby's funeral and tin can't find anyone to come.
• Completely disillusioned and horrified, Nick moves dorsum home to the Midwest.
• 2 years later on, 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 upward friends with Hashemite kingdom of jordan Baker.
• In October 1917, Daisy and Gatsby run into 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 yr, before coming back to Chicago, and then to East Egg.
• Nick invites Daisy over for tea then that Gatsby can "drop by" and he and Daisy reconnect.
• Gatsby and Daisy begin their thing.
• Daisy is unwilling to completely renounce Tom, which decimates Gatsby. Daisy decides to stay with Tom.
• Daisy, driving Gatsby's machine, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson.
• The adjacent day, Tom and Daisy skip town for good.

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 histrion.
• Daisy marries Tom Buchanan in June 1919. On their honeymoon, he has his kickoff affair.
• In 1920, Daisy gives nascence to Pammy, and the Buchanans move to France for a year, earlier coming back to Chicago, so to Due east Egg.
• In the spring of 1922, Tom starts an affair with Myrtle Wilson.
• In early summertime, Nick comes to dinner at Tom and Daisy's house, where Tom praises a contempo racist book.
• On July two, 1922, Tom takes Nick to meet Myrtle. They go to a Manhattan apartment, to a minor party that ends with Tom punching Myrtle in the face for talking well-nigh Daisy.
• In August, Tom meets Gatsby when Tom stops by Gatsby'southward in the heart of a horseback ride.
• Daisy is unwilling to completely renounce Tom, which decimates Gatsby. Daisy decides to stay with Tom.
• Later Daisy, driving Gatsby'south car, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson, Tom convinces Wilson that the auto's driver was actually Gatsby.
• The next day, Tom and Daisy skip boondocks for skillful.
• In October, Nick runs into Tom in Manhattan, where Tom confesses to telling Wilson that Gatsby was driving the auto that killed Myrtle.

Myrtle Wilson Timeline

• In 1910, Myrtle marries George Wilson.
• Myrtle and George movement into the flat above the garage in 1911.
• In the leap of 1922, Tom starts an affair with Myrtle Wilson.
• On July two, 1922, Tom takes Nick to meet Myrtle. They go to a Manhattan apartment, to a pocket-size party that ends with Tom punching Myrtle in the face for talking about Daisy.
• George figures out that Myrtle is having an thing. He locks her in their house until he tin can get enough money to leave the city.
• Trying to escape, Myrtle runs out toward Gatsby'south automobile because she thinks Tom is driving.
• Daisy, driving Gatsby'due south automobile, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson.

George Wilson Timeline

• In 1910, Myrtle marries George Wilson.
• Myrtle and George move into the apartment above the garage in 1911.
• In the summer of 1922, George tries repeatedly to convince Tom to sell his machine to George so that George tin can resell information technology.
• George figures out that Myrtle is having an matter. He locks her in their business firm until he tin become enough money to get out the urban center.
• Daisy, driving Gatsby'southward car, runs over and kills Myrtle Wilson, which completely devastates and unhinges George.
• The adjacent 24-hour interval, George Wilson shoots and kills Gatsby so himself.

 What's Adjacent

Read our summary of the novel's plot in the lodge that it happens.

Learn the significance behind the novel's title, itsstarting time, and its ending.

Use your newfound understanding of the characters' lives to get more than pregnant out of our overview of the characters or swoop deeper with our detailed graphic symbol analyses.

Larn the groundwork of and context for the novel in our explanations of the history of the limerick of the book and the biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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