A symbol does not always mean something in particular, but it doesn't exactly work like that. If a symbol means one thing its an allegory so it may stand for something other then it may seem. An example being Orwell's Animal farm the point is not the Revolutions fail, but those who come to power are corrupted and reject values. Symbols have a range of meanings. Caves where once lived in and pictures were drawn. Adela could have been helped by the canes on a deeper level of consciousness and what she feared most. Adele may be confronted by the hypocrisy of her life and the confrontation of truth of terrors she denied . As a reader we bring individual history, gender, race, class and faith influencing what we interpret and understand. In crane a river connects on a vertical axis that brings worth to both the North and South and that together they might stop movement East and West. Eliot brings forth a dying civilization , the river was slimy, dirty and corrupted of modern life and the collapse of western civilization. When a person thinks of symbols they think of images but it is not always objects but events and actions.
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