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The Red Light
The red light that the ghost stands by whenever it haunts the signalman comes to represent the unavoidability of death. The signalman explains to the narrator that the first time he saw the ghost, it…
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The Train
Every death in “The Signalman” is caused by a train-related accident—though trains are meant to serve as a means of transport, in the story they represent the crushing power of industry. (While many Victorian writers…
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The Box
Because the signalman has to spend his days and nights below ground watching for approaching trains, he lives and works out of a structure that the narrator calls a box, which represents the signalman’s…
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