At the age of seventeen, "James Gatz- that was really, or at least legally his name" (98), began to call himself Jay Gatsby when he met Dan Cody. ... With Dan Cody Gatsby traveled around the world on a yacht, got an education at Oxford and got a taste of the wealthy life, "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" (100). Gatsby was amazed by what he could achieve with lifestyle like Dan Cody. ... However while docking in Boston, Dan Cody died. ... He threw lavish parties, bought Ita...

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Jay Gatsby was introduced to his future through Dan Cody; it was through this introduction that the formerly poor James Gatz became Jay Gatsby. Dan Cody took Gatsby "to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pairs of white duck trousers, and a yachting cap. " (p. 100) Although it isn't Gatsby who does it, Dan Cody covers him with the blue coat, the sign of the future. The life that Dan Cody leads would pass on to Gatsby through this coat "and not through Dan Cody's money because Cody's family would take it all when he died. ...

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The American Dream is an idea that has existed throughout the United States" history. Before the United States of America was established, immigrants from all over Western Europe stormed to America. Some immigrants came to help expand their country's empire, some were explorers searching for new a...

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