One day a young New York reporter showed up at Gatsby's door and asked for a statement. There wasn't much reason for it, except that Gatsby was rapidly accumulating a great notoriety for a multitude of untruths- including that he didn't live at his house at all but in a houseboat that roamed secretly up and down the shores of the Long Island sounds; that he was connected to some strange "underground pipe-line" to Canada and other such stories circulated by his guests.
In fact, Nick discloses in this chapter, Jay Gatsby is, indeed, James Gatz from North Dakota, the scion of unsuccessful farmers. At seventeen, he was digging clams and catching fish on the shores of Lake superior. After a brief job as a janitor in small Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, he.....
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