Symbolism in A Pair of Silk Stockings by Idamaria Holm https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism Click the + in the corner and write down the symbols that your group found and what they may represent and why. Remember to write your names at the top of the post. en-us 2017-04-18 08:52:18 UTC 2025-10-02 02:56:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Send.png Julia, John, Hedda, Lovisa, Joy https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223198 The silk stockings represents wealth

"Do you think there are any eights-and-a-half among these?" Symbolises that she is buying something for -her self- not for her grand children. Something in her size

The silk stockings represent being personally concious about one's wealth. The gloves represent one's ability to show one's wealth to others. The play at the end of the story represents one's indifference to money, that one doesn't need to work. 

The damask is a symbol of physically entering a richer world.]]> 2017-04-20 11:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223198 Hillevi, Agnes, Thora, Samuel, Matilda https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223328 The cable car:
A way of living. She never wanted to get out of the cable car because when she do, she will return to her old life, her life in poverty.

The pair of silk stockings:
It makes her feel more important. Nobody stares at her and look at her in the bad way they use to. The silkstockings makes her feel like a "normal person".
The pair of silk stockings gives her a longing for other things.]]> 2017-04-20 11:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223328 May, Embla, Carl-Axel, Victoria https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223377 1. Tomorrow is something that is  haunting her beacause she's old. (We think)
2. The fifteen dollars represent freedom in this case. Usually money represents greed. 
3. The silk stockings represent freedom as well, they are a product of the money. We think that Mrs.Sommers was quite selfless throughout her entire life and the stockings were kind of symbolising freedom because she finally got to splurge on herself.]]> 2017-04-20 11:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223377 Annie, Stella, Alice, Sanna https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223388 The silk stockings symbolises several things:

1. They represent a yearning or longing for something more than the monochrome  experience she has with life so far. 
2. They show the freedom and independence that comes with wealth and living in a financially secure situation. Money is rarely considered as an issue unless one finds oneself without it.
3. Finally, they symbolise Mrs. Sommer's lack of satisfaction with her life. 

The stockings are the first thing Mrs. Sommer's purchases for herself, giving her a taste of what it is to be a person of wealth

The food that she has in the restaurant was a cleal contrast from her every-day life. She is used to living in a very plain way - with a lot of cold food and few spices. The food gives her a literal taste of what she has missed out on in life. It represents the concrete of what she is longing for. ]]> 2017-04-20 11:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223388 Filippa, Vincent, Johanna, Elin, Frida https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223860 The money = Symbol for freedom and happiness and a better life
The stockings = luxury, the forbidden fruit
The cable car = she stay in the dream
]]> 2017-04-20 11:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167223860 Cajsa, Felicia, Sofie, Tilde, Stephan https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167224151 The Silk Stockings: symbol for her wealth that she had before, something that she wants again the upper class life, they are very small but it means a lot more to Mrs Sommers
The gloves: symbol of her past and status; she touches the stockings at first without gloves, showing how she doesn't have the status she once had anymore. She then buys gloves again, and thus once again regaining her status.
The theatre: symbol of higher class/her situation: the theatre represents the higher status she wants to have and belong to. When the acts stop, it could be a symbol of her "wealthy" life she had for a second ends as well.
The money/15 dollars: symbol of old past self and desire to be wealthy. She's had money in the past and having it once again made her desire the life she had, The money takes her back.
The cable car: a symbol for everything having an end; the car can't move without fuel, and the fuel for her is the money that she got. She got the money unexpectedly but she wants them all the time and make it continue forever but She has to go back to her beginnings. ]]> 2017-04-20 11:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167224151 holger https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167224302 2017-04-20 11:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/167224302 https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/223639264 2018-01-23 05:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/223639264 https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/243994009 2018-03-20 13:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/243994009 21gahernandez https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/311216739 2018-12-05 03:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/311216739 https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/978975129 Symbolic significance of a pair of silk stockings]]> 2020-12-02 08:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/idamaria_holm/English5_Symbolism/wish/978975129