It also describes everyone’s nervousness. Later on, when Gatsby asked Nick to invite Daisy to drink tea he says: “Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.” Fiztgerald says “increasing rain” instead of just rain because he wants to show how agitated Gatsby was for being with Daisy alone. Gatsby had sent him over to cut my grass.” This quote also describes rain which is symbolizing how sad and depressing everything there was because of Gatsby’s absence.
At eleven o’clock a man in a raincoat, dragging a lawn-mower, tapped at my front door and said that Mr. “Only wind in the trees which blew the wires and made the lights go off and on again as if the house had winked into the darkness.” By saying this he shows how lonely Nick was and this makes a great contrast with past weather in the same place. In chapter 5 Fitzgerald starts by describing a windy and stormy setting. Fitzgerald uses the sunset to show how things get dark after Nick knows the whole love story of Gatsby and Daisy. Also, the sun going down behind the buildings happens right after Jordan ends telling the story about Daisy and Gatsby to Nick. He tries to create a mysterious mood by talking about twilight and adding the buildings in the description.
#SYMBOLS IN THE GREAT GATSBY WITH PAGE NUMBERS MOVIE#
“The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the clear voices of girls, already gathered like crickets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.” “It was dark now…We passed a barrier of dark trees, and then the facade of Fifty-ninth Street, a block of delicate pale light, beamed down into the park.” In these quotes Fitzgerald uses weather when he describes that there was a sunset and a hot twilight. This doesn’t express emotions, he just mentions sunlight to make the reader get into the story and get his attention. He describes sunlight reflecting on the cars. “Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon moving cars.” Fitzgerald uses weather to create imagery in this quote. Gatsby’s parties at his house were fun, so that’s how weather relates to feelings in this quote. For example, “All these people came to Gatsby’s house in the summer.” Summer usually represents happiness and joy. There are many quotes that prove this in chapters 4, 5 and 6. Weather is a motif in The Great Gatsby since it is a recurring idea in the book. Fitzgerald describes the breeze in a very detailed way to show Nick’s peace and calmness. “A breeze blew through the room, blew the curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.” (pg.8). In addition weather is also used to set the mood of the story. Also, he is scared about meeting them and that’s why it is a windy evening because he doesn’t know how they will react, and how he will react. This relates to Nick’s feelings because he is feeling good about meeting with those old friends. In this quote we can notice that it is a warm windy evening.
For example, “And so it happened on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.”- Nick (pg. In the first chapter of The Great Gatsby weather is used to show feelings and emotions that the characters are expressing.
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