Gatsby's past is quite interesting. From a worker who work as a fisher in a lake, Gatsby now become a wealthy person. After he dropped out of college, he worked at a lake. Then, he became Cody’s personal assistant and change his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. He was travelling with Cody to the Barbary Coast and the West Indies, and take care for Cody when Cody was drunk. When Cody died, he left Gatsby twenty-five thousand dollars. It makes me so surprise and curious. Why does Cody give Gatsby so much money? Twenty-five thousand is a lot of money at that time, it could make a regular people become wealthy and rich. At this point of the book, I wish Gatsby could be with Daisy like before he left Louisville because he had done so