Thursday, March 7, 2019
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald relies heavily on the weather and the environment to emphasize events and people
Peoples feelings and emotions be oftentimes changed or impact by the weather. There be also many stereotypes that go along with the weather. For example on rainy eld people often feel troubling or on very hot old age people often have short tempers and can become tempestuous easily. In The striking Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald relies to a ample extent on the weather and the milieu to accent events and people. This is clearly look atn during the solar days of Gatsbys reunion with Daisy, Gatsbys funeral, and the confrontation amongst Gatsby and Tom.One of the more important times that F. Scott Fitzgerald relies on the weather and the environment to emphasize events and people in The Great Gatsby is the day of Gatsbys reunion with her. This day is very important to Gatsby as he has been counting the days since he last saw Daisy. Gatsby has asked ding to invite daisy over to Nicks place for tea so that Gatsby could come over and be reunited with her. The day agreed upon w as pouring rain (Fitzgerald 81). While they wait For Daisy, Gatsby is uncharacteristic every last(predicate)y nervous.He is so nervous that he tells Nick that he is divergence to go home because he doesnt think that Daisy will appearing up. The rain helps to emphasise the how nervous and worried Gatsby is. At first, when Daisy shows up, Gatsby is awkward and his fingers are even trembling (Fitzgerald 84) but after Nick leaves him alone for half(prenominal) an hour, he comes second to find Gatsby sticker to his confident self. When Nick walks stand in the room he informs Gatsby, as well as the reader, that its stopped raining (Fitzgerald 86) and at this news Gatsby smiles like an ecstatic champion of recurrent light (Fitzgerald 86). The fact that it has stopped raining helps to emphasise that Gatsby has gained back his sureness and has his usual self confidence.Another time that is significant in The Great Gatsby where F. Scott Fitzgerald relies on the weather and the environm ent to emphasize events and people is on the day of Gatsbys funeral. On the day of the funeral the rain creates a sad mood. When Nick goes to New York to see Meyer Wolfshiem and he says he can not attend the funeral we first learn that it is raining out. When I left his locating the sky turned dark and I got back to West lump in drizzle (Fitzgerald 163). This sets the mood for a sad, gloomy day.Although during all of Gatsbys very large and expansive parties he is surrounded by people, his funeral is instead the opposite with only Nick, Mr. Gatz, Owl-eyes and a few of Gatsbys servants attending the funeral, our boost of three cars reached the ceremony (Fitzgerald 165). The weather stays this way all day and Gatsbys funeral ends up being a very sad and unhopeful event. This is very unlike the funeral earlier in the book where people are celebrating the life of their friend and remembering all the good times they pass together as they pass Nick and Gatsby in cheerful carriages (F itzgerald 67).F. Scott Fitzgerald again relies on the weather and the environment to emphasize events and people in The Great Gatsby on the day of the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom. When Tom, Nick Gatsby, Jordan and Daisy all go to New York they decide to get a suite at the heart and soul Hotel. It is here on the hottest day of the summer that Tom and Gatsby have their swelled fight. The broiling (Fitzgerald 109) weather causes everyones tempers to be short and helps to establish the hateful, tearing mood of the confrontation. In the end, Tom wins the dispute and everyone, except Gatsby, can see that Daisy is going to stay with Tom.The next day, now that the reader understands that Daisy is going to preserve with Tom, the weather cools down and it is chilly outside The night had made a sharp difference in the weather and there was an autumn feel in the air (Fitzgerald 146). Just as Gatsby refuses to accept the fact that he can not go back in time and that Daisy actuall y did and still does issue Tom, in this instance he refuses to accept that it is no longer summer. When the gardener tells Gatsby that he wants to drain the pool to stop leaves from block the pipes, Gatsby tells him that he can not do this today and that Gatsby has not swam all year and plans to do so today. Gatsby believes that he can go back in time and make it warm, just like he believes ha can go back in time and make Daisy love him.In conclusion peoples emotions and feelings are often affected or can be changed by the weather. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald relies heavily on the weather and the environment to emphasize events and people. F. Scott Fitzgerald really uses this during the days of Gatsbys reunion with Daisy, Gatsbys funeral, and the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom. Like many great writers such as William Shakespeare, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses pathetic fallacy to help the reader to break out understand what is happening, create suspense, and put emph asise on different incidents end-to-end the novel.
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