How Is Darkness Used In The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby tries to find Daisy after he was at war. He would host party after party to try and attract her to his place to find her again. After 5 years, they finally meet again, and Daisy still has a love for Gatsby. In the end, Tom (Daisy’s husband) and Gatsby resent one another and Daisy and Tom move away together. The phrases that Fitzgerald uses in The Great Gatsby give the readers a sense of what the mode is, using the heat or darkness to show the emotion in a specific setting.
There are repeated phrases and images portrayed in The Great Gatsby. They seem to be repeated in the book when there are very detailed scenes or if the moment is tense. For example, Nick talks about how “the rain cooled about half pasted three to a damp mist, through which occasional thin drops swam like dew” (54) when

When Tom stopped at Wilson’s gas station, Nick describes the day as, “the relentless beating heat…” (77) after Wilson talked about moving out West, and that seemed to bother Tom. Nick even talks about when Gatsby was waiting for Daisy’s call, “...how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass” (99). There seems to be a connection between these phrases because it seems that every time there is a tense moment Nick describes the heat in a very detailed way. Another example is after Myrtle Wilson was hit, Nick describes how the car left the scene, “...it came out of the gathering darkness, waved tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend” (85). This gives a dark picture of that setting in the book after Myrtle was hit because Nick describes the darkness in a more