One quote that would be worth
using:
And so
with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things
grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again
with the summer. (Chapter I, pg.
4)
Another quote that is
worth considering is when Nick goes to the Buchanans' house for the first time and a
breeze is blowing through the room until Tom shuts the
windows:
A
breeze blew throught he room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale
flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled
over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. (Chapter I,
pg. 8)
And then on the hot
day when the group goes to the hotel to escape the heat, the description of the heat
segues the discussion from the weather to marriage:
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As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat
exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's
Wedding March from the ballroom below.
"Imagine marrying
anybody in this heat!" cried Jordan dismally. (Chapter VII, pg.
127)
And one description of
the weather references the day Gatsby last spent with Daisy before he left for
war:
On the
last afternoon before he went abroad, he sat with Daisy in his arms for a long, silent
time. It was a cold fall day, with fire in the room and her cheeks flushed. (Chapter
VIII, pg. 150)
And for a
final quote, a description of the day on which Gatsby tells Nick that he think Daisy
never loved Tom, despite what she said just the day
before:
It
was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows
downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The shadow of a
tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
There was a slow, pleasant movement int he air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool,
lovely day. (Chapter VIII, pg.
152)
Hope these help you key
into a few places where Fitzgerald uses the weather to indicate the mood of the
characters or events, or perhaps the tone of the day for the characters and their lives.
Great question!
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