How Does Fitzgerald Use Weather In The Great Gatsby

Throughout the story of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author, used the weather to control the characters feelings and events that took place. He used rain to show Jay Gatsby’s uneasiness and anxiety. He used the intense heat to show the anger and frustration between all of the characters and fights between characters.

Fitzgerald used the weather in chapter five to show Jay Gatsby’s anxiety when Nick Carraway said, “The day agreed upon was pouring rain, At eleven o’clock a man in a raincoat dragging a lawn-mower tapped at my front door and said that Mr. Gatsby had sent him over to cut my grass” (Fitzgerald 88). This quote from The Great Gatsby shows that Jay Gatsby is anxious about seeing Daisy again after all this time because he had to make sure that everything about Nick's house is perfect for Daisy. He had to have the grass cut and he sent over tons of flowers and trees for inside the house.

Right after Fitzgerald used rain, he used sunshine and pretty colored clouds to show happiness and love between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald switched the weather from rainy to sunny during the lunch between Daisy and Gatsby. Daisy calls Gatsby over to the window and says, “Come here quick! cried Daisy… the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink

This is where Fitzgerald used heat to show the anger and frustration between the majority of the characters. Nick Carraway states, “The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer” (Fitzgerald 120). This quote from The Great Gatsby showed that the tension between characters was rising with the heat. Also, it showed that something big was going to happen because of the huge change in weather. For example, the fight between Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan about whether Daisy ever loved Tom or not occurred on a steamy, hot day. This cued the reader that some major conflict was going to