Actions are always louder than words. This is a common quote when someone is trying to describe a flaw or mistake that you have done in your life but could your actions be truly controlled by inanimate creations such as key phrases or a surrounding. Imagine weather having an effect on your day and your mood. Whether it be rain discouraging your day or scorching heat from the sun that creates a whirl of fury inside of you and explodes every now and then. Would this ruin your life as you see it or does it describe you plainly and this is how you may act sometimes. This is the plain truth for which the characters live in, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby, the weather has a direct correlation to the characters
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The valley of the ashes did not sound like an appealing place to live in and Nick first sees it as a desolate wasteland. The first time Nick observes the valley of the ashes was with Tom on their way to pick Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson, “...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”(Fitzgerald 23). The place generally sounds really unsanitary and you would expect the people who live there must be all coal miners, but in reality, they are not and some had dreams and aspired to be something more and live somewhere better. Myrtle Wilson, one of that are lively in the valley of the ashes, has the privilege to be around the elite and even benefit from them. One example is that she has an apartment in lively downtown New York and has so many clothes that she wears wealth clothes in the house because she knows Tom will get her more clothes. Without this luxurious way of life, Myrtle Wilson would be dead inside along with the valley of the ashes. WIthout Tom, the valley of the ashes would be nothing other than a pitstop on the way to New …show more content…
Conversations could yield a level of awkwardness where everyone makes no movement or sound before carrying on their conversations; diversely, this is not the case in the novel in which the silence lasts a couple of minutes due to the shock between Gatsby and Daisy. The shock between the two characters is described in the novel when Gatsby knocks over Nick’s old clock, “Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place. Then he sat down, rigidly, his elbow on the arm of the sofa and his chin in his hand”(Fitzgerald 86). The clock itself played an important role as it presents how Gatsby can’t let go of Daisy and clings on to the past. Scholars that study the book have speculated that it may even foreshadow his inevitable doom for trying to relive the past. The clock may also explain that since it broke that time for him is frozen as he does not want to live in the present. Fitzgerald made sure that the clock was a noticeable symbol but readers may breeze by it due to the context of what is currently happening in the book. A
The valley of the ashes did not sound like an appealing place to live in and Nick first sees it as a desolate wasteland. The first time Nick observes the valley of the ashes was with Tom on their way to pick Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson, “...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”(Fitzgerald 23). The place generally sounds really unsanitary and you would expect the people who live there must be all coal miners, but in reality, they are not and some had dreams and aspired to be something more and live somewhere better. Myrtle Wilson, one of that are lively in the valley of the ashes, has the privilege to be around the elite and even benefit from them. One example is that she has an apartment in lively downtown New York and has so many clothes that she wears wealth clothes in the house because she knows Tom will get her more clothes. Without this luxurious way of life, Myrtle Wilson would be dead inside along with the valley of the ashes. WIthout Tom, the valley of the ashes would be nothing other than a pitstop on the way to New …show more content…
Conversations could yield a level of awkwardness where everyone makes no movement or sound before carrying on their conversations; diversely, this is not the case in the novel in which the silence lasts a couple of minutes due to the shock between Gatsby and Daisy. The shock between the two characters is described in the novel when Gatsby knocks over Nick’s old clock, “Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place. Then he sat down, rigidly, his elbow on the arm of the sofa and his chin in his hand”(Fitzgerald 86). The clock itself played an important role as it presents how Gatsby can’t let go of Daisy and clings on to the past. Scholars that study the book have speculated that it may even foreshadow his inevitable doom for trying to relive the past. The clock may also explain that since it broke that time for him is frozen as he does not want to live in the present. Fitzgerald made sure that the clock was a noticeable symbol but readers may breeze by it due to the context of what is currently happening in the book. A