Significance Of Rain In The Great Gatsby

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Foster explains to the audience how the weather affects the mood and tone of a story. The significance of rain in stories can control how the characters feel and react to situations. Rain can mean many things from cleanliness, purity, and self-discovery to dreary and dismal. The mood of the story can hold negative connotations when the “dark” and “gloomy” notions are added to it and can change the emotions of the characters. Snow can also be a life-changing element in a character’s life. The weather can control the whole disposition of a novel.

In this book, a woman named Hagar has a shower of self-discovery after indulging herself in clothes, accessories and extensive makeovers, all to impress a man who’s ideal woman is presentable and ideally white. After spending everything she had on her fantasy image of the perfect woman , she gets trapped in a storm that ruins all her new purchases. The rain cleanses her of the false idea of beauty that she has created. Although she never truly accepts herself as the dark-skinned, kinky-haired girl that she is, she understands that she does not need to change herself for any man.

During the scene where Jay Gatsby and Nick Carroway get Nick’s house set for Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby’s long-time lover to arrive, the weather suddenly changes and rain starts
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Although Jonas’ eyes are closed while the Givers transmits this memory, Jonas feels how cold everything is. It’s not a bitter cold that he feels, but more of a peaceful, serene cold. After experiencing this new and different feeling, Jonas is “changed” for the better and begins to see the world in a new light. He began to understand that the community has been completely missing out on emotions and feelings for years and will eventually hope to change that. The cold, purifying snow changed the way he went on with his life in the community and his closest