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Andrew was able to compile these five schedules, discovered in the final residences of each main character of The Great Gatsby.

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At first I had the idea to write a narrative depicting a meeting between Daisy and Gatsby during the weeks in which Nick stops visiting Gatsby because he is preoccupied with Daisy. I had this idea because I wanted to explore the psyche of characters other than Nick, in a day-to-day context. This is when I was flipping through the book and came across Gatsby's schedule. I immediately decided that I would write a schedule for each major character depicting "non-events" during the book. The result is a caricature of each characters' common actions and tendencies throughout the book. Rather than completely attack their flaws, I instead poked fun at some lesser habits, such as Jordan's driving, to round off the negative depiction of each character. Despite this one-sidedness, just as Gatsby's schedule indicates the affluent man that he eventually becomes, each of these schedules depict a clear and likely fate for its holder.