In what ways do two of the works you have studied employ recurring motifs or symbols to portray a sense of isolation or confinement?
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Both Fitzgerald and Atwood use recurring motifs and symbols to make isolation visible, but they do so in sharply different ways. In The Great Gatsby, confinement is often social and psychological: characters are separated by class, by fantasy, and by their inability to escape the identities attached to wealth. In *Th