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Identify and explain 2 of the story’s images and/or symbols. Tie them into the detective fiction rules.

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One of the strongest symbols the story employs is the bond of friendship between Miss Allen and Miss Plenderleith, a bond so strong that one woman would frame someone for the murder of the other. While the story's romantic connections seem like they might break Rule 3, there is no love interest for Poirot.
There's another symbol in the film adaptation, that being the failure of communication with Poirot's launderers. This failure ties in with the rest of the story, most notably Allen's relationships.

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The story follows the rule of no romanticism in a detective plot line and is strictly about the solving of who the killer is.

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The murder is revealed to be a suicide, which breaks rule 18. Though in this case it is not an anticlimax as the story has the reader believe that it is murder, which is explained as Ms. Plenderleith framing Major Eugene. This also ends up breaking rule 17 with Ms. Plenderleith feeling remorse for trying to kill a man who was already in prison.

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There are 3 detectives featured breaking the rule of 1 detective

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It was a suicide which breaks a rule but other than that almost everything falls in line with the rules.

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I agree Ruby, that this story does break the rule of having a murder in the story. The "murder" ended being a suicide that was framed to look like a murder, and I really enjoyed this plot twist.

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I guess two symbols related to the rules would be the briefcase and Investigator Japp. The briefcase ties into the red herring rule from the 20 rules list, and Japp relates to the partner rule from the 10 rules.

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I agree with you on rule 18 being broken. I feel like Miss Planderleith was suspicious from the beginning, but she kept trying to confuse the detectives. There were also some key pieces of evidence that are connected to her, but the detectives were busy interrogating other people throughout the story.

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While that is true, Poirot is the only one who actually figures anything out, and is also the one who solves the case when everyone else assumes its the major

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I agree with Eliza for the fact that the story might contradict Rule 3 for some of the characters except for Poirot. I disagree with the briefcase and how it connects to the red herring rule because finding the briefcase only gave him more proof of suspicion that it was Ms. Plenderleith. I agree that Investigator Japp relates with the partner rule because Poirot also helps Japp try to solve the case

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I agree Shahnawaz, I thought it was really weird how she called the cops "without knowing" whether Ms. Allen was dead.

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Along with this, we largely follow Poirot's perspective, and he is the one doing most of the detective work. Japp is also there with him for the majority of the story, meaning that they are both getting similar clues.

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There are three detectives presents, however, Poirot is the only one who analyzes clues and describes them in a fluent/clear manner where the reader will be able to solve the crime along with the detective. Japp is portrayed as slightly dim-witted because he does not look deeper into clues, whereas Poirot is shown with superior intelligence to both him and the police. Lastly, the story is relayed through the perspective of Poirot as he discovers more clues.

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I agree, Ms Allen and Ms Plenderleith's friendship is a central part of the story and paves the way for the justification of the crime and excuses the breaking of rule 18. The fact that this suicide was avenged and framed as a murder makes the story far more interesting than if Ms Allen had just been killed. Also, the briefcase is another symbol, it being a red herring. It doesn't break any rules, however, because both the reader and the detective were tricked by this clue.

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All of these responses have been about the rules broken in the story. I do agree that most of the rules were followed except for rule 18 being broken when the death turned out to be suicide. I also agree that Miss Plenderleith was suspicious in the story, especially in the film version. I would also like to mention an image that stuck out to me which was the amount of detail that the author went into describing the room in which Mrs. Allen was found. As, according to the rules, detective authors aren't supposed to go into a lot of unnecessary detail, this allows the reader to know that there was something important about the room.

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I do agree that the rules of detective fiction were followed very well. The contrast of intelligence between Japp and Poirot did a very good job of highlighting Poirot's pure genius in solving the case. I somewhat disagree with Ellie on the subject of the author going into too much detail on the room. It was necessary to the case and wasn't some sort of extraordinary concoction or contraption.

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I also liked the plot twist, I was confused on why the suicide was framed to look like a murder though.