The Great Gatsby
When and why does James Gatz his name to Jay Gatsby?
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His real name is James Gatz, and he was born to an impoverished farmer in North Dakota, rather than into wealth in San Francisco, as he claimed. He had his named legally changed to Jay Gatsby at the age of seventeen.
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