In chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby describe the effect of rain on the plot

The weather in The Great Gatsby  is worthy of note as it echoes the emotional tone of the story. Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion begins in pouring rain suggesting an awkward and melancholy event; their love reawakens just as the sun begins to come out.  This happens in Chapter 5.

At the end of Chapter 6 Nick and Gatsby talk to each other. Gatsby tells Nick that he is worried that Daisy did not like the party; moreover he talks a lot about the past, especially about the moment when he kissed her for the first time and fell in love. Nick tells the reader of an evening Gatsby and Daisy spent together in their youth. The moment was so perfect and beautiful to Gatsby that he has spent all of his time trying to recreate that moment. It is this recreation that he believes will make him happy. In a novel which contains such images of heat, ashes and other images of inferno, rain also suggests an opportunity for regrowth and renewal. Rain washes clean, this echoes the imagery of grubbiness and corruption.

 At Gatsby’s  funeral, the rain represents more than just sadness. What is most significant about this rain is a quote one of the attendants or the minister at the funeral says: “Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on” (183). This is clearly an allusion to either the English poet Edward Thomas or the famous 17th Century English proverb, “Blessed are the dead that the rain rains on”