... by a wealthy yachtsman, Dan Cody. It is from Cody that Gatsby develops his appreciation for wealth. "To young Gatz, resting on his oars, looking up at the railed deck, that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world- (Fitzgerald 106). Fitzgerald uses this quote to mark the point at which Gatsby encounters wealth and power for the first time ... , and also, he uses it to symbolize Gatsby's social standing and economic status. By comparing Gatsby's rowboat with the luxurious yacht of Cody's, Fitzgerald presents the idea that money and power translate into bigger and better t...

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... how they earn their money. Mr.Buchanan was born into his old money riches, whereas Gatsby comes from nothing, working his way to the top by laboring on Dan Cody's Yacht and illegally bootlegging. Considering Tom is born with money and privilege, he is used to spending his money very casually. On the same note, Gatsby spends his money with ease ... ...

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... ; 'Well they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's [Mr.McKee put forth]'''(Fitzgerald 35). This statement is truly false. During the five years he lived on the yacht working as the rich Dan Cody's right hand man, they sailed around the world three whole times. When Dan passed away, Gatsby was meant to be abandoned with twenty-five ... ...

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... his boyhood experience with Robert Kerr (Bruccoli 212). Fitzgerald wrote to Kerr in 1924 telling him he was going to include him as the mysterious yachtsman (Bruccoli 212). "Dan Cody's yacht, the Tuolomee, is named after the gold fields in California, and underlies the idea of grandiose promise betrayed by brutalized reality- (Kermit Moyer 227). Ella Kaye, was based on Nellie ... ...

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... least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career--when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior. It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of ... ...

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... . Indeed, when he changed his name and took upon himself his new "conception of himself": "To young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world." (p. 106) HOWEVER HIS VISION GOES BEYOND 'I'HIS: ( cf p.118) "Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks ... ...

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... . He was born to a North Dakota farmer and was sent to a small Lutheran school called St. Olaf College. One day, when he was on Little Girl Bay, he saw the yacht of millionaire Dan Cody in danger of being broken up by a storm, and rowed out to warn him. Cody was so impressed with this boy, who now called himself Jay ... ...

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... Gatsby is James Gatz the son of unsuccessful farmers who lived in the Midwest. He started calling himself Gatsby when he was seventeen years old ad saw millionaire Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor on a very dangerous part of Lake Superior. He also admits he was involved in some illegal bootlegging. Gatsby planned that after he ruined Daisy's past with Tom that ... ...

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... character Dexter Green. Dexter's father owned the second best grocery store in Black Bear and Dexter caddied at the Sherry Island Golf Club only for pocket money. Dexter was the best caddy at the club never losing a ball yet he still had a desire to quit stating that at fourteen, he was too old. This ... linen, which helped him to build the laundry into a string of businesses. At twenty-three years old Dexter received a guest card to the Sherry Island Golf Club for a weekend of playing golf. While playing with some men he once caddied for who now bored him, he became reacquainted with Ju...

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... . While attending Princeton University, Fitzgerald struggled immensely with his grades and spent most of his time catering to his "social" needs. He became quite involved with the Princeton Triangle Club, an undergraduate club which wrote and produced a lively musical comedy each fall, and performed it during the Christmas vacation in a dozen major cities across the country. Fitzgerald was also elected to "Cottage ... true love, she certainly was not his last. In July 1918, while stationed in Montgomery, Alabama with the military, Scott met a gracious, soft-voiced girl named Zelda Sayre ...

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... Academy and also in Hackensack, New Jersey at the Newman School. Fitzgerald wrote for the Nassau Literary Magazine and the Princeton Tiger and wrote scripts and lyrics for Princeton Triangle Club musicals while going to Princeton(Bruccoli). Fitzgerald wasn't the brightest man. He was on academic probation and wasn't expected to graduate so he went into the army without graduating with ... up in a poor home. Recalling his past, he said: "That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich boy's club at Princeton...I have never ...

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... on Mary McQuillian's father's inheritance of $250,000. While hitting some hard times, his mother's name and the appearance of money is what had kept the Fitzgeralds in "the country club set- even though there was no constant source of income. Fitzgerald said it best when he stated that he lived in "a house below average, on a street above average- ("Introduction to ... in New Jersey from 1911-1913. After graduating from the Newman School, Fitzgerald entered New Jersey's prestigious Princeton University. While at Princeton he wrote lyrics for musicals that the Triangle Club, Princeton's ...

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... . She is ironic and somewhat cynical, and behaves apparently to mask her pain at her husband's constant infidelity. Tom Buchanan: Daisy's wealthy husband, which once was a member of Nick's social club at Yale. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never considers trying to live up to the moral standards from those around him. Tom has no ... ...

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... ordinary parents. When he was only thirteen, his first work was published in the St. Paul Academy newspaper. Fitzgerald went on to write scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club's musicals and contributed to the Tiger Humor and the Nassau Literary Magazines while attending Princeton University. But, because he found writing more interesting than studying, he was placed on academic ... ...

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Winter Dreams and Great Gatsby "That was always my experience-- a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton ... . However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works"(Brucolli). F. Scott Fitzgerald noticeably uses this life ... ...

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