Fitzgerald's Use Of Water In The Great Gatsby

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significant underlying theme in The Great Gatsby is the use of water as a means of portraying separation and challenge. It embodies Gatsby’s struggles as he yearns to reunite with Daisy. Fitzgerald employs this motif in various points of the novel to bring about this idea as well as an underlying element between the two. Right off from the beginning, an expanse of water divides the two major peninsulas, West Egg and East Egg. It serves the role of representing the goal Gatsby is reaching for; in fact, he “stretched out his hands toward the dark water” as to note his aims toward Daisy in East Egg (Fitzgerald 12). In order to get Daisy, he would have to traverse this physical barrier. Later this separation and struggle is reinforced when