Money, a novel about, well… money, surprisingly has a lot of mentions about the weather as well. John Self seems to refer to the weather almost as constantly as he does to money––how he’s “dumped out of the sky into nothing weather” (51), and there’s just “no weather” (71), and him asking “where has the weather gone?” (85). I think if we exchange the word “weather” with the word “money”, it’d still make sense: he’s just dumped into nothing money, there’s no money, where has the money gone? It is as if two, money and weather, are synonyms for each other. When John isn’t doing anything for money, there’s no weather. When there some kind of dilemma in him getting money, it’s raining, or snowing, or it’s oppressively hot, or it’s just grey.

Throughout the novel the weather is constantly grey, bleak, and having all kinds of effects (rain, snow), but rarely is there “nice weather”. The only time when it’s considered to be nice is when the royal wedding was happening, and John sat there watching and bawled. He said Princess Diana had the colour of “health or sun… but it is only the colour of money” (263). Weather and money are something you can’t control, John has said it himself, but it seems the people who have money are those who can also control the weather, those who have the weather element. Martina is also weather and money, where she could “fill the air with sun or thunder at the touch of her tap… she’s [John’s] weather god for now” (320), and because she controls the weather and the wealth, she also controls him.

(I hope I’m making sense… I’m still trying to distinguish or clearly identify the relationship between weather and money and this is what I have come up with so far.)