The Great Gatsby
...ut the feelings of the estranged lovers. At first it’s raining heavily, “Once more it was pouring and my irregular lawn abounded in small muddy swamps and prehistoric marshes,”(93) but later on, “After half an hour the sun shone again.” (93) The rain depicts how the two lovers have drifted apart and are awkward. Yet the sun quickly comes out symbolizing their lover for one another being rekindled. Gatsby’s meeting with Daisy is foreshadowed by the change in weather. Gatsby’s confrontation with Tom Buchanan inadvertently happens on the hottest day of summer. Nick says with fatigue, “The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.” (120) The high temperature relates to us that fuses are short and everyone is goaded. The sparks flew when Gatsby irks Daisy to admit that she has never loved Tom, which she cannot do. Jay Gatsby suggests to Tom, “Shall we all go in my car? I ought to have left it in the shade.” (127) This terse quotation foreshadows the downfall of Gatsby’s dream. The car is Fitzgerald’s intentional misnomer that stands for his dream and how he should have put it off. The culmination is Daisy’s refusal to leave Tom, the man she has cherished for several years. George Wilson murders Gatsby on the first day of Autumn, a season in which leaves begin to fall off trees and die. “The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water.” (170) Gatsby floats in his pool despite a tangible chill in the air, this denotes his attempt to stop time and restore his relationship with Daisy to the way it was five year...