Fitzgerald uses weather as a symbolic setting with skill to remark on the mood of characters and the dramatic movement of The Great Gatsby. Instead of random, every shift in temperature or rain adds to the psychological tension and thematic depth of vital scenes. Mark their reconciliation: it occurs on the rainy day, in line with the awkwardness and affective ambiguity between them. When they resume contact and feel toasty, the clouds lift transient symbolic accord between what is and what Gatsby desires. Yet even that is temporary, as if from the moment itself. The most action-packed weather day is the day when Gatsby confronts Tom at the Plaza Hotel. Sweltering summer weather surrounds the characters, building until emotions overflow. When it is hot outside, most drama filled secrets are revealed, relationships are broken, and Gatsby’s dream begins to disintegrate. Fitzgerald’s use of rain and heat is used to underscore the unpredictability of this world. Individuals are controlled by whim, by mood, and by forces beyond their will. Weather is never background per se, it’s emotional weather given shape. Even in the end, fall arrives when Gatsby’s story ends. The coldness in the air is a premonition of decay, endings, and death of summerdreams. Fitzgerald uses, not only to set up scenes, but to encompass emotional realities. In a novel in which characters are prone to being isolated from consequence, the weather is one of the few that respond to their inner turmoil offering nature as witness to their ruin.