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Water
Water symbolizes isolation and, by extension, the state of self-awareness and understanding that can result when one accepts the lessons isolation has to teach them. Throughout the novel, water is itself an isolating force. Water…
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Glass
Glass symbolizes a person’s capacity to hurt and be hurt by others. More generally, it represents the vulnerability every person has to be complicit in actions and systems that affect the lives of others, and…
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Ghosts
Ghosts symbolize the responsibility a person has to do well by others—and the haunting guilt that arises when people fail to live up to their social and interpersonal obligations. Jonathan Alkaitis and Paul are the…
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