To the young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, the yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world. I suppose he smiled at Cody — he had probably discovered that people liked him when he smiled. At any rate Cody asked him a few questions one of them elicited the brand new name and found that he was quick and extravagantly ambitious. A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers, and a yachting cap.
One day, he saw a yacht owned by Dan Cody , a wealthy copper mogul, and rowed out to warn him about an impending storm. The grateful Cody took young Gatz, who gave his name as Jay Gatsby , on board his yacht as his personal assistant. Why did Dan leave Gatsby? Cody was a heavy drinker, and one of Gatsby's jobs was to look after him during his drunken binges. This gave Gatsby a healthy respect for the dangers of alcohol and convinced him not to become a drinker himself.
How did Dan Cody became wealthy? We learn that Dan Cody earned his wealth through various mining rushes in the Far West and Alaska—a silver rush in Nevada, a gold rush to the Yukon in Alaska, and a copper rush in Montana.
These various adventures made Cody a millionaire. The copper mining in Montana, we are told, made him "many times a millionaire. Why does Gatsby not drink alcohol? He earned it by bootlegging alcohol, which as we all know was illegal because of the prohibition of alcohol during the time of this book, and he also earned a lot of his money from fake stocks. Even though Jay Gatsby didn't earn his money honestly, he was a very honest man when it came to what he wanted. In this scene, Nick stresses that he had only been drunk twice in his life, that afternoon being the second.
Gatsby becomes the protege of the wealthy gold miner and lives with him until Cody dies. This story is recounted in chapter 8 of the novel. Nick is home from the city and has seen the accident scene. Gatz, who has come all the way from Minnesota.
Henry Gatz is proud of his son and saves a picture of his house. They were separated from each other all night. All of the tension, cheating, background relationships are being revealed to us.
His obsession with recapturing his past relationship with Daisy compels him to a life of crime and deceit. He becomes a bootlegger, does business with a gangster, and creates a false identity. Jay Gatsby, the lead character in F. He lies about the origin of his wealth, he lies about his love life, he even lies about reading the great books in his library. So, the Big Lie has its history in fiction and in fact.
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