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| LitCourse 9 How to Read: Symbol |
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Symbols—literary "Roman Fever" Edith Wharton (LitCourse 8)
• The Colosseum, an place of battle, suggests a more subtle battle of wills between two women. • Grace Slade's knitting needles are like a weapon, or her knitting like a web of entrapment for Alida. • Afternoon shadows suggest a shadow falling on the friendship, a dark secret soon to be revealed. |
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