Weather In The Great Gatsby

Charles Dudley Warner once said, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” People always complain about how hot or cold it is outside, or when it is pouring. They never do anything but complain since they think they can not do anything about the weather. Although they are not capable of changing the weather, they are able to manage it by changing the actions they take. For example, people can turn on the heater if they are cold, yet most of the time, they just complain to others. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters complain about the weather all the time, prompting some to have to tell them what to do in times like that. Through the use of imagery, weather motif cause the readers

When Gatsby becomes incredibly uneasy because Daisy isn’t acting the way he had expected her to, Nick goes outside to give them space. He describes the conditions outside as “… pouring, and [his] irregular lawn… abounded in small muddy swamps and prehistoric marshes” (88). Gatsby began to doubt himself after asking Nick to call Daisy over, the rain reflecting the fact that he is unsure as to whether he made the right choice or not. As Nick starts to leave for their privacy, the rain starts to pour down on them again, letting the readers have a brief understanding of how the conversation was going between Gatsby and Daisy while Nick was not there to tell what was going on. As Gatsby and Daisy started to get more comfortable around each other, “the sun shone again” after half an hour. (88). Later on when Nick informs Gatsby that it had stopped pouring, “…that there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy” (89). Nick noticed that her throat, “full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy” (89). When Gatsby and Daisy rekindle their friendship and love, the weather clears up and becomes sunny and beautiful out. The sudden change in weather shows the change in the character’s feelings. Now, both

The day that they finally met was “broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer” (114). As the tension begins to rise, the weather becomes very hot. The fact that the day Tom and Gatsby finally met was the hottest day of the year signified the tensest day they had experienced yet. Usually with hot weather, tempers begin to rise and people become more short-fused. Fitzgerald shows this by describing how the surrounding characters are acting. When Gatsby is called outside by Tom to talk, the rest of them “had luncheon in the dining room, darkened too against the heat, and drank down nervous gayety with the cold ale” (118). Hot weather often yields uncomfortableness, the current situation being proof of so. The conflict is perpetuated by the heat, signifying the tension of that time. Oblivious to the conversation outside, the group attempted to cool themselves off in the rising heat. As the uncomfortableness increases, the nervousness felt throughout the group on the inside also increase significantly. The boiling weather creates tension and flaring tempers, and in this case, leads to a fight and a