The Simple Gift

by

Steven Herrick

The Simple Gift Symbols

Houses

In The Simple Gift, houses represent the possibility of stability and family. As such, they are complicated symbols, because a house alone doesn’t guarantee stability or love. Billy Luckett runs away from his childhood…

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Food

In The Simple Gift, food symbolizes the healing, transformative potential of human connection. Food is the glue that binds together the relationships in The Simple Gift. It’s also a way that people express…

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