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Weather In The Great Gatsby

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In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses weather to comment on the relationships of characters and cities.
The Valley of Ashes is a valley of hopelessness everyone who lives there is poor and the sky is alway grey and filled with ashes. For example when the valley of Ashes is described in the beginning of the book (Fitzgerald 23) “This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” This examples gives the city a gloomy mood. The greyness of weather in the valley of ashes represents sin and a sort of impureness because Myrtle cheats on her husband with Tom, and Tom cheats on his wife Daisy. Furthermore the this supports the claim of “The Valley of Ashes” “of the ash heap and its "ash-grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air" over which the eyes brood changelessly; of George Wilson's despairing mutter as he gazes at the eyes, "You may fool me, but you can't fool God!" (“The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg: A Re-examination of "the …show more content…

In the begin of the movie the lake or body of water that separates Daisy from Gatsby is very cloudy and grey like it is described in the book. The valley of ashes is very dust and look very old western and forgotten. The city at the begin is shown as very upbeat and the weather is nice and everyone is happy. The most noticeable change in the movie is at the end when Gatsby dies and nick is about to go to his funeral the sky is grey and it raining. No one is there but nick and a couple other people, and then nick is left alone in the empty house with all the good memories and the wind just moves through the house like there was no gatsby like nothing ever really

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As readers, we encounter many different books with many different storylines, but do we always grasp the allegories, or symbols, that the author uses throughout his text? Granted, some are more obvious than others, but we all can agree that just about every single book we’ve picked up, or will pick up in the future, will have some sort of symbol. In The Great Gatsby, there are a few symbols that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses to underline the main ideas throughout his text, but one in particular stuck out to me, the weather. Not only does Fitzgerald use the rain and the sunshine, but he also uses the seasons, summer and fall, to give his scenes deeper meanings. The weather provides meaning by representing Gatsby’s feelings, the heat between the characters,

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In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald the setting tool place in the Valley of Ashes, where it is hard to breathe and people who lived in that area did not go outside that much. The Valley of Ashes is a place where it is all dusty and there is a lot of gray clouds in the sky. In the

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A motif in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby would be weather which reflects the moods of encounters between characters of this great American novel. In the fifth chapter, Gatsby meets his old flame Daisy while it is raining heavily which demonstrates the extent to which their reunion is awkward and melancholy. However, as the rain ceases and the sun appears, their love reemerges as the pair start to behave as though nothing had changed in regards to their relationship status. Another example of this would be the heated confrontation between Gatsby and Daisy’s husband Tom in the seventh chapter which occurs on the hottest day of the summer like the deadly brawl between Tybalt and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

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From day one of Nick Carraway’s arrival, to the tragic ending of the Gatsby story, the weather continues to play a big part in predicting what’s to come. While reading, the weather might seem to be of little importance, but looking back, it’s hard to miss its meaning. The weather in The Great Gatsby, foreshadows character behaviors and gives insight on certain events and people in the novel. Fitzgerald uses the theme of weather through a combination of temperature and wind, rain storms, and hot summer days all while intertwining it into the character’s lives.

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The whole Valley of Ashes is very dull and lacks color, unlike New York City or the two eggs where Gatsby, Nick Carraway, and the Buchanan’s live. Tom Buchanan takes Nick to meet his girlfriend in the valley and he seems to describe everything as having a bland gray tone, including the people and cars. “Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and

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It also serves to portray the materialistic society that surrounds them (The Colors of Society - Camouflaged Discontent).” The characters portray such class and wealth along with fake happiness. The Valley of Ashes looks at how they feel on the inside which Daisy and Gatsby both ooze with discontent with how they’ve made decisions and how their lives did not turn out how they dreamed. Next, at one of Gatsby’s many house parties Nick makes a list of “grey names, and they will give you a better impression than [Nick’s] generalities (Fitzgerald 61).”

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The grey dust symbolizes how Gatsby will never be able to achieve his goal, yet he keeps trying, only to become a slave to his own desires affecting him negatively. Fitzgerald describes Gatsby is killed by an “ashen and fantastic figure” (161). The appearance of this grey figure indicates Gatsby’s disillusionment and death. It also means all the things including Gatsby’s dream and life are ended in the bleak and gloomy tragic grey atmosphere. Thus, the color grey is used to illustrate the impossibility of the American Dream, as both George Wilson and Jay Gatsby are consumed and ultimately destroyed by their own

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