Symbolism by Rachel Hahn

Kendra Horel

2025-10-27 17:05:40 UTC

Throughout the story there was a very distinct allegory. That if you keep chasing for more, and more money you will never get anywhere. You cannot be greedy or else you will not get anywhere, and throw your whole life away for nothing.

Kendra Horel

2025-10-27 17:10:48 UTC

In "A rose for Emily." Emily can never get over something and acts childish all of the time. This symbolizes that you need to move on to succeed. Emily just hid inside all day, and would not speak to anyone. She even becomes a murderer because of this as well.

Kendra Horel

2025-10-27 17:16:05 UTC

In "The Yellow Wallpaper." the wallpaper itself symbolizes women struggling with postpartum depression. It shows how women just feel like they are going crazy, caged, and alone.

Kendra Horel

2025-10-27 17:17:08 UTC

Allegory- Phoenix never gives up at all throughout the whole entire story. She is saying you can never give up or you wont make is where you want to go.

Liz and Millie

2025-10-29 16:19:12 UTC

The rocking horse that Paul rides symbolizes his struggles between adulthood and adolescence. He's riding a toy rocking horse to make an adult action (money) which juxtaposes the two actions, just as Paul is caught between the two times in his life.

Millie and Liz

2025-10-29 16:21:16 UTC

Emily's refusal of suitors and her isolationism stems from the cycle of abuse that her father instated within her as a child. He denied every man who came for Emily, which isolated her. To find comfort, she did the same things, never escaping the cycle. It symbolizes how abuse sticks around in a person for their entire life.

Brooke, Luca, & Mallory

2025-10-29 16:22:16 UTC

The rocking horse symbolizes the journey Paul went on to get his mother's approval, but just like a rocking horse, he didn't get anywhere. Rocking horses don't actually move; they just rock back and forth. Paul kept going back and forth trying to get his mother's love just to end up in the same spot he started at.

Amii + Abby

2025-10-29 16:24:11 UTC

In "Rocking Horse Winner" there are fantastical elements. The house "talking" or "whispering" about more money is a fantastical element because houses obviously can't talk in real life. While Paul is rocking his rocking horse, a "blaze of light" lights him up which reveals the supernatural phenomenon that allowed him to see which horse would win.

Brooke, Luca, & Mallory

2025-10-29 16:24:39 UTC

We think that the room she's trapped in symbolizes her being stuck in her head. She is trapped in that room and can't get out, just like how you can't run away from your thoughts. As her mind slowly degrades, so does the room (less wallpaper).

Brooke, Luca, & Mallory

2025-10-29 16:25:13 UTC

The crayon portrait is a symbol for Emily's youthfully obsession with her father. The fact that it is made out of Crayon shows how she still is in the mindset of a child. After her father died she never moved on; she had a dependence on him and when she loses him she freezes in time. She is still a child relying on her father even when she becomes an adult. The portrait shows how trapped Emily is.

Liz and Millie

2025-10-29 16:25:43 UTC

Allegory- In "The Yellow Wallpaper" Her obsession of the walls is an allegory for her deteriorating mental state. As she loses her self from depression she believes she is the woman in the walls. Her husband doesn't believe that the walls are they way she says he doesn't believe she is mentally ill.

Brooke, Luca, & Mallory

2025-10-29 16:27:34 UTC

In "A Worn Path," the nonexistent chains Phoenix described to be pulling her back, symbolized all of the discrimination and the hardships she faced. For example, the hunter kept putting her down and underestimating her. He is one of the many people trying to hold her down and tell her she is unimportant and useless. Nonetheless, she kept going because she knew what she had to do and no one could stop her.

Millie and Liz

2025-10-29 16:28:34 UTC

Fantasy- In the short story, "A Worn Path" it gives a goof example of fantasy when she sits down on the bank to rest. A little boy appeared out of nowhere and gave her a plate with marble cake.

Amii + Abby

2025-10-29 16:31:34 UTC

The house is a symbol for Emily being trapped in her past. When her father is alive, she is trapped in the house as well because he never allowed her to do anything. The house grows old and deteriorates without anything being done to restore it to its old grandeur. This also symbolizes Emily being trapped in tradition and not being able to break out of the cycle. She is trapped not only in her past, but also in the house itself.

Amii + Abby

2025-10-29 16:32:48 UTC

There is an allegory in "The Yellow Wallpaper" about how women's medical issues are often brushed aside, and not taken seriously. In the story the main character's sickness is ignored by her husband who is a doctor. He tells her that it is all in her head. This solution to her sickness does not make her better, it only makes her worse. If he had taken her sickness more seriously, she would have gotten better.

Amii + Abby

2025-10-29 16:36:28 UTC

"A Worn Path" is an allegory for the oppression of Black women. Phoenix faces a lot of adversity from the hunter and the people in town. They look down on her and don't see her as someone worth their time. They degrade her, but even then she continues on with her journey.