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Where did Gatsby come from?
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Do you mean Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, or the Gatsby static-site generator (GatsbyJS)?
If you mean Jay Gatsby: he was born James Gatz to poor, “shiftless” farming parents in the Midwest (Fitzgerald never gives a precise state). At 17 he reinvented himself as “Jay Gatsby” after meeting the wealthy sailor Dan Cody on Lake Superior. He later built a new identity and fortune (much of it earned illegally, e.g., bootlegging) and moved to West Egg on Long Island to pursue his dream—chiefly, winning back Daisy Buchanan.
If you mean Jay Gatsby: he was born James Gatz to poor, “shiftless” farming parents in the Midwest (Fitzgerald never gives a precise state). At 17 he reinvented himself as “Jay Gatsby” after meeting the wealthy sailor Dan Cody on Lake Superior. He later built a new identity and fortune (much of it earned illegally, e.g., bootlegging) and moved to West Egg on Long Island to pursue his dream—chiefly, winning back Daisy Buchanan.
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