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Weather In The Great Gatsby

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The weather in the novel The Great Gatsby is a spring like setting, whichreally sets the tone for the events that happen. In Thomas Foster’s How to ReadLiterature like a Professor, he states “So if you want a character to be cleansed,symbolically. Let him walk through the rain to get somewhere. In The Great Gatsby,Jay Gatsby was meeting Daisy for tea, he was inside waiting for her, snuck out theback door while raining, came to the front door soaking wet and went into the roomwhere Daisy was. Once he went in the rain, he got somewhere and reached anotherlevel of him and Daisy’s love for one another. On page 89 in the Great Gatsby, Gatsbyasked Daisy, “What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining” and Daisy replied, “I’mglad Jay.” Thomas Foster’s

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