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    The document analyzes Fitzgerald's use of weather as a motif in The Great Gatsby. It discusses how different weather conditions are used to signify moods and foreshadow events. Rain often symbolizes sadness, such as at Gatsby's funeral. Heat tends to portray anger or panic, like when Gatsby fires his servants. Weather helps intensify scenes, for example the rain during Gatsby and Daisy's reunion matches Gatsby's feelings. Fitzgerald's incorporation of weather adds meaningful symbolism that connects to the characters' emotions.

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    The document analyzes Fitzgerald's use of weather as a motif in The Great Gatsby. It discusses how different weather conditions are used to signify moods and foreshadow events. Rain often symbolizes sadness, such as at Gatsby's funeral. Heat tends to portray anger or panic, like when Gatsby fires his servants. Weather helps intensify scenes, for example the rain during Gatsby and Daisy's reunion matches Gatsby's feelings. Fitzgerald's incorporation of weather adds meaningful symbolism that connects to the characters' emotions.

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    The document analyzes Fitzgerald's use of weather as a motif in The Great Gatsby. It discusses how different weather conditions are used to signify moods and foreshadow events. Rain often symbolizes sadness, such as at Gatsby's funeral. Heat tends to portray anger or panic, like when Gatsby fires his servants. Weather helps intensify scenes, for example the rain during Gatsby and Daisy's reunion matches Gatsby's feelings. Fitzgerald's incorporation of weather adds meaningful symbolism that connects to the characters' emotions.

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    1 Weaver

    Elizabeth Weaver

    Honors English III

    Mrs. Helms

    January 3, 2018

    Weather Motif

    Throughout The Great Gatsby, weather has come to signify a lot about the mood in the

    story. Weather is also used to foreshadow the hopes and dreams of the main characters. F. Scott

    Fitzgerald uses weather to intensify the mood during certain parts in the book, such as during

    Daisy and Gatsby’s reunion, it starts to pour down rain; which symbolizes Gatsby’s feelings.

    When Nick leaves Gatsby alone with Daisy, the scene is still unsettling shown by the weather

    because said in the book by the narrator, “The rain is still falling, but the darkness had parted to

    the West” (88), which could symbolize their awkwardness, but yet enjoyance of each other’s

    presence. Soon after, The rain stops, and Gatsby talks about the rain finally stopping to Daisy.

    He describes the weather then as “twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room” (91), which now shows

    his excitement. Then, he goes on to show Daisy his house describing it by the weather.

    Fitzgerald also uses heat especially towards the end of the book to describe how intense a

    certain scene gets. Heat seems to be mostly used to portray anger and panic. “The next day was

    broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the Summer” (147) is an example of intense

    heat. This happens when Gatsby tells Nick that he fired all of his servants because they were

    not trustworthy, and Gatsby did not want them to gossip, especially now about him seeing Daisy.

    In chapter eight, the heat starts to cool down, and the author portrays this by setting cooler

    weather to the scene. “It was a cold fall day with fire in the room and her cheeks flushed.” (128)
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    is an example of the heat balancing in this chapter. This could also show how Daisy and Gatsby

    are finally happy together, and things are settling down.

    At the end of the book, Gatsby dies, and no one attends his funeral but Owl Eyes;who is

    a man that Nick meets in Gatsby’s library, and then very few others. . “The rain poured down

    his thick glasses and he took them off and wiped them to the the protecting canvas unrolled from

    Gatsby’s grave”(176) , which shows sadness because of the fact that first of all, Owl Eyes is the

    only one that has taken care of him, and everyone that attended his parties has used him for fun,

    and because he has money. Therefore, in this part of the book, the rain symbolizes sadness,

    loneliness, and death.

    The weather motif adds significant symbolism to the story as it connects with the feelings

    the characters have, and the tension in that particular scene. Throughout the book, rain mainly

    symbolizes sadness, and regret. Heat usually symbolizes tension, and something bad might soon

    occur. Overall, Fitzgerald implied weather into each scene of the novel by how each character

    felt, and the reader could interpret how the next scene would play out based solely on what the

    author has given to us in the settings.

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