Great Gatsby Setting
In The Great Gatsby setting represents the characters personalities, all the main locations for example Valley of Ashes, West Egg, and East egg all describe the characters in some way. Gatsby lived in West Egg where all the very rich people and the new emergence of the new rich lived. Gatsby described West Egg because he was very rich, was young, had a ginormous home with glorious parties. Tom and Daisy Buchanan lived in East Egg “Across the courtesy bay by the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins” (5). East Egg is for all the high social class, wealthy, and the older upper class that dominated the society. This described the Buchanan’s because Daisy was always described
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For example when Gatsby and Daisy had tea together in West Egg after not seeing each other for 5 years it was thundering and raining, they were nervous and uncomfortable. But soon when they began talking and they began reminiscing about the past the sun came out and it turned into a beautiful day. This shows that the change in mood changes the weather and environment. Another example of setting impacting the theme is when the whole group went to the City and stayed in the Plaza. This day was the hottest day in the summer, this was because Gatsby and Tom were fighting, the heat shows the heated argument they were having about Daisy. It was very hot in East Egg, West Egg, New York, and The Valley of the Ashes until the day Gatsby died. ”At two o’clock Gatsby put on his bathing suit and left word with the butler that if anyone phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool” (161). Gatsby was going for a swim in his pool for the first time all summer before it closed for the fall. This was the day George killed him, it was still warm out but after his death the weather turned cold. This shows that Gatsby's and Tom’s argument wasn't over while the weather was still hot but as soon as Gatsby died the fight was over the cold weather came in and Tom had won the fight. This shows that the setting during The Great Gatsby greatly affected the theme in the
For example when Gatsby and Daisy had tea together in West Egg after not seeing each other for 5 years it was thundering and raining, they were nervous and uncomfortable. But soon when they began talking and they began reminiscing about the past the sun came out and it turned into a beautiful day. This shows that the change in mood changes the weather and environment. Another example of setting impacting the theme is when the whole group went to the City and stayed in the Plaza. This day was the hottest day in the summer, this was because Gatsby and Tom were fighting, the heat shows the heated argument they were having about Daisy. It was very hot in East Egg, West Egg, New York, and The Valley of the Ashes until the day Gatsby died. ”At two o’clock Gatsby put on his bathing suit and left word with the butler that if anyone phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool” (161). Gatsby was going for a swim in his pool for the first time all summer before it closed for the fall. This was the day George killed him, it was still warm out but after his death the weather turned cold. This shows that Gatsby's and Tom’s argument wasn't over while the weather was still hot but as soon as Gatsby died the fight was over the cold weather came in and Tom had won the fight. This shows that the setting during The Great Gatsby greatly affected the theme in the