The Great Gatsby: Gatsby vs Drowned Sailor “Gatsby as a Drowned Sailor” is an review written by Margaret Lukens. It compares Jay Gatsby from the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald as a drowned sailor. Margaret Lukens believes that many points in the story can be seen as nautical. Ways that Margaret Lukens believes that Gatsby can be represented to be a drowned sailor is his youth, and his death. Although it is never said in the novel that he was a sailor, she still pulls out ideas that can be linked and thought out to be him being a drowned sailor Margaret Lukens explains that the first hint linking Gatsby to a drowned sailor is when he first met Dan Cody. She says “The earliest autobiographical detail that Nick elicits