The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Chapter 8, one (seemingly casual) topic that was talked about often was the weather. Interestingly though, the weather (as in many plots these days) positively correlate with the emotional feelings of the characters. For example, the day when all hell broke loose and Tom confronted Gatsby was on one of the hottest days of the year, symbolizing the hot-headed behavior of the two in their fight for Daisy. Then soon enough, the weather cools as autumn starts to turn the corner, and Gatsby is desperate to hold onto Daisy, so when Gatsby stands outside of Tom and Daisy's house in the cooling night, he starts to grasp the reality and the end of him and Daisy, Tom doesn't hurt her, and Daisy doesn't ever leave the house. "He put his hands in his coat pockets an turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing therein the moonlight- watching over nothing" (Fitzgerald, 145). He realized by the cold of the moon that there was nothing he was watching over, and that his hopes of having Daisy were dying like the leaves on the trees and the temperature of the air.
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