Before he met Dan Cody, as Nick says in Chapter VI, Gatsby was "beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed." He took whatever work was offered in order to keep himself alive. Further, he "knew women early," and since they were too good to him, he started to hold them in contempt. During this time,...
Before he met Dan Cody, as Nick says in Chapter VI, Gatsby was "beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed." He took whatever work was offered in order to keep himself alive. Further, he "knew women early," and since they were too good to him, he started to hold them in contempt. During this time, he was haunted by his dreams for the future, and it was through his fantasies that he found an outlet for his well-developed imagination.
He found himself at the "small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota." He was only there for a couple of weeks, working as a janitor to pay for school and absolutely detesting the work and "its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny [...]." He seemed to have a sense or a hope, at least, that he was destined for something substantial, that he was going to make some big impact on the world, that he would be important somehow. Then, disillusioned with school, he made his way back to the lake and was "still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows alongshore."
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