Water and the Glasses

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Just wondering...what does everyone make of the many important scenes in the
Glass stories that are centered around water? I am thinking, specifically, of
the beach scene in APDFB, the entire story of Teddy, which all takes place on a
ship, and specifically the question of the swimming pool at the end, and
whether or not there was water in it, and also of Franny's dream in Zooey,
which I just reread, in which she is in a swimming pool surrounded by people in
bathing suits, but as the only one not in a bathing suit, SHE is the one who
has to keep diving for 
"a can of Medaglia d'Oro coffee that was on the bottom." These scenes are all
so memorable...I guess I am thinking of the way water is and is not like glass:
it can either be transparent or it can reflect, depending on the light, like
glass, but unlike glass it distorts what is behind/under it (the Bananafish
were underwater: could Seymour have had a distorted view of them?) and unlike
glass it is penetrable.

Thoughts?

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