Geography:

West Egg- newly rich

East Egg- history of wealth

Valley of Ashes: desolate, represents decline in America

East US: decay, hollowness

West US: morally sound (MN where Nick is from)

Weather:

Weather changes with the moods of the characters

Meeting between Daisy and Gatsby: sad/rainy matching their melancholy moods

Meeting between Gatsby and Tom: Hottest day of summer matching enraged moods

Day Gatsby dies: first day of fall, cool, crisp, cold matching the ending of his life

motifs: Geography, Weather