How Does Fitzgerald Use Weather In The Great Gatsby

The largest storm to ever hit New York happened in October of 2012. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald is brewing up an even larger storm. Although many might argue that in The Great Gatsby the weather is not relevant to anything but just New York weather, Fitzgerald uses the weather as a motif of mood throughout the story. Readers notice the use of weather to represent the mood early on in the book when it is raining when Gatsby and Daisy are at tea together.Typically people relate rain to sadness, but here Fitzgerald uses it to show readers how Gatsby is feeling nervous about seeing Daisy for the first time in five years. When it “stopped raining”(pg.88) Fitzgerald is showing readers that Daisy and Gatsby are now beginning to become more comfortable and less nervous around each other. Later in the book, when Fitzgerald gives readers a flashback into the past, James Gatz (Jay Gatsby) is in a thunderstorm which depicts his unweathy life that he was living. When he meets Dan Cody and his yacht, Dan Cody’s yacht had been heading …show more content…
The heat is so brutal and “everything is so confused”(Chapter 7). Fitzgerald shows the readers that Daisy is confused about her feelings about Tom and Gatsby. Gatsby is the man that she used to love and Tom is the man that she is now married to and has a child with. The tension between Tom comes when Gatsby “looks so cool” Tom notices that there is something going on between his wife and Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the use of the fall and winter to depict the mood of DEATH. With the death of myrtle and Gatsby this is a great weather motif.In fall things begin to die, such as trees which he also depicts as yellowing and dying. In the winter things have officially died off, which is why Fitzgerald depicts it as snowing at Gatsby’s funeral, he does this to depict that Gatsby and his “dream” has officially