The Great Gatsby - From James Gatz to Jay Gatsby
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- SANITARIUM - NICK’S ROOM (PONDERING OUT THE WINDOW)
- It wasn’t until the end of that summer, on the last night I saw gatsby, that he told me of the life he had dreamt for himself since he was a boy......
- North Dakota Farm
- ... Gatsby's real name was...James Gatz His parents were dirt-poor farmers from North Dakota...But he never accepted them as his parents at all.
- North Dakota Night
- In his own imagination, he was the Son of God. Destined for future glory...
- Chasing this destiny, a sixteen year old Gatz ran far, far away.
- One afternoon, off the coast ofLake Superior, he spotted a yacht in peril...Young Gatsby lets the row boat drift close to a magnificent yacht. Wind is whipping whitecaps on the bay. He rowed out and rescued the vessel, and its captain, alcoholic millionaire Dan Cody...
- LAKE SUPERIOR - LATE AFTERNOON
- The bleary face of DAN CODY appears at the yacht’s railing. Cody is very drunk. Young Gatsby calls urgently. He collapses, dead drunk. On Young Gatsby's Mind; a plan forming...
- Whadzamatta...? Whaderathinkyerdoin..., old sport?
- Sir! The shoal here’s real bad,this wind could drag you onto it
- I decided right then and there to call myself: Jay Gatsby
- This was his opportunity, and he seized it.
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