He describes how she uses symbols such as reading, music, and walking to present her characters in accordance with the novel's themes. ... Like reading, Elizabeth plays because she enjoys music, with or without an audience, while Miss Bingley uses music as her feminine "social status symbol" and also as a means to attract men (Moler 52). ... These walks associate her with her art-nature characteristics (Moler 54). ... The first time is at Netherfield in the drawing room, and the second is in the shrubbery at Netherfield (Moler 54). ... Moler presents his views on the symbolic motifs ...

• Word Count: 688
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

When she is watching the trial, she comes to a new understanding of society's view of a person's worth because of the color of their skin. ... With her new point of view, she finally understands that the system sometimes fails people because of who they are on the outside. ... This description emphasizes Laura's fragility, using all the breakable objects and flimsy material as a symbol of her current state. ... The dinner goes horribly, but once they are alone in a candlelit room, things change for Laura. ... If that figure had broken the day before, she would have been hyste...

• Word Count: 988
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Pynchon describes her optimistic view as a "growing obsession". ... Pynchon creates understanding of the doctor's foolish idea with the analogy "that the unconscious would be like any other room, once the light was let in." To compare the unconscious mind to a room is a preposterous assumption. ... Each time Oedipa views one of the post horns it hurts her because she does not understand the meaning. ... Bringing the symbol to life and giving it the knowledge to strike at Oedipa's most sensitive areas shows the struggle she undertakes to understand them. ...

• Word Count: 3055
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

He also must accept his involvement of risks in correspondence with his fellows. ... Two colors also connected with Jewel; the colors red and green. ... His most powerful symbol connected to Vardaman, though, is the fish. ... This is all interwoven inside Vardaman's head, with all the conscious and unconscious aspects blended with the realms of life, death, time, and space. ... ("ClassicNotes") William Faulkner used all of these elements to create this novel through the eyes of his southern view, all based on the actual human drama of the South. ...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School