Seasons Symbolism In The Great Gatsby

The seasons in a text play a big role and The Great Gatsby is no exception. This book is full of seasons packed symbolism. There is Daisy who at times will “[open] up in a flower-like way”(Fitzgerald 23) to the people around her. This main character gives off the warm and kind feelings that come with feelings like spring and summer. And not so coincidentally the book takes place in the summer. He arrives in New York when “it was a warm season [he] had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees”(10). The fact that it is warm and in the country there are fully leaved trees shows that it is summer in New york when he is telling this story. But summer is not the real season, the season that Nick is looking back from is winter. He is re telling the story after he came back “last autumn”(9), which shows that

But things changed when he started to put himself back into the summer and remembered the times when “life was beginning over again with the summer”(13). And he felt honored to have someone ask him where West Egg was. Nick, although he felt special in the summer in New York, did not compete with Daisy’s husband Tom. Nick and Tom might have, at one point in life, crossed paths at school but Tom ended up being “a national figure in a way”(15) because of his football career. All the while Nick went on to fight in the war and not become a national figurehead. But it is not just their accomplishments that differ them it is their own mannerisms. While Nick can go on talking and listening to Daisy talk about their relationship and how “[they] don’t know each other very well”(21). In this way Nick is very kind and predictable with how he will act in a situation, he will not be rude or disruptive, he will be kind. On the other hand Tom can go back and