Examples Of Weather In The Great Gatsby

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure” (Alice Hoffman). In life and in this novel, weather reflects a character's internal and external actions. On a sunny day, faces are smiling, hearts are light, and life is good, compared to a dark, stormy day when everyone is stuck inside, sad and tired from doing nothing. In the novel this is shown by weather effecting each characters, and setting the tone as the reader follows the novel's course of events. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the weather consistently matches the novel's emotional tone, foreshadowing climatic events. During the stressful moments leading to Daisy and Gatsby’s meeting after many years, a horrendous storm pounds West Egg. The storm incessantly

Time dwindles towards four o’clock, the agreed upon time, and Gatsby begins to panic concluding that, “Nobody's coming to tea. It's too late!” (Fitzgerald 85). Nick convinces Gatsby that he's being irrational and moments later they both are startled by the sound of a car entering Nicks drive. Nick, opening the door, saves Daisy from the rain and shows her to the next room where, to his surprise, he does not find Gastby. Suddenly the doorbell cuts through the silence so, “[Nick] went out and opened it. Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into [Nick’s] eyes” (86). Gatsby stalks past Nick into the next room, where he immediately stops dead in his tracks, entirely taken back at the sight of Daisy. Once Gatsby returns to his senses, the