The Great Gatsby Part 2

The prompt for this weeks blog post is “in chapter 5, when Daisy and Gatsby meet, how is weather used to create mood, and what mood(s) is created?”

The weather in this particular scene plays a big role on not just the mood of the scene but how the characters hold themselves, Gatsby is most effective by the weather and here’s why. Weather can set the mood in many situations, and can either worsen or improve a character’s emotional state depending on their present situation and how they react to the weather. From a mental and emotional standpoint, Gatsby was fearful for many reasons and the weather made this worse. For example, he was nervous about Daisy coming over and the weather made it worse because bad weather can be seen as a bad omen. Because Gatsby was so nervous to begin with, he fed off of the bad weather. He developed the mindset that something can and will go wrong. The author used the weather to show how vulnerable Gatsby was in this scenario, and create a sense of how far apart Daisy and Gatsby were. This was confirmed since at the end of the  conversation after tea they discuss the green light, with Gatsby discussing how he would observe the green light and their future happiness as far away.