Jay ran away from home and met a drunk Dan Cody, and Gatsby saved his life by hitting the rocks while on his boat. Dan Cody taught Gatsby everything he knew. Dan Cody always drank alcohol, and Gatsby saw how it affected Dan Cody, so he never really drank alcohol again after being with him. Then Gatsby got rich very quickly and no one knew how he got all his money. There were rumors about how he became rich, but no one knew the facts about Gatsby. People said he was a smuggler and he killed a man. There were a lot of unfair assumptions about Gatsby, not all of which were