“The day agreed upon was pouring rain… After half an hour,
the sun shone again... There was a
change in Gatsby… He literally glowed; without a word or gesture of exultation
a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room” (83-89).
“Ree raised the window…, and was quickly gone again. She was
tucked into a blackness… When her eyes rolled open she was part of a cloud of
some sort, a thick weary cloud that had settled to ground. Windows frosted and
glazed, fog low outside the windows” (167).
Although written in two different centuries and rooted in
opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum, in both The Great Gatsby and Winter’s
Bone, Fitzgerald and Woodrell continually reference weather. In both novels, how does the motif of
weather further reveal the thoughts and feelings of the characters?
Mary-A very nice topic. How about we tweak it a bit...and narrow it down, perhaps?
ReplyDelete"...in both The Great Gatsby and Winter’s Bone the author makes frequent use of weather as a literary device. Choose an example from each novel and discuss how the weather complements the thoughts and feelings of the characters?"