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Morrison’s Song of Solomon
1. Explain the meaning of these symbols that appear in Morrison’s Song of Solomon:
(a) The watermark on Ruth Dead’s dining room table
Given the symbolic importance of the dining room table as a centre of the nuclear family, the
permanent white scar is a reflection of how the family is dysfunctional. But as it would later turn
out, severally tried a Mr Clean Magic Eraser to the table in the efforts of making the watermark
disappear with two hearts, as she at the same time was in love with the watermark given it
would remind and connect her to her father.
(b) The Dead’s Sunday drives and Macon’s Packard
That was a symbol of the family’s entrapment in materialism as they have the opportunity to
show off their opulence and posterity, thus a symbol of success as evident with Macon’s
satisfaction of the same. But again, the drives also represent a form of confinement given that the
green Packard did not provide joy for its owners as was expected.
(c) Macon’s keys
The keys are a status symbol, that is, the symbol of wealth and opulence in the family
thereby opening them to what they needed.
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(d) Guitar being unable to eat sweets
Since his father’s death in a sawmill, Guitar has never eaten the sweets in a symbolic manner
to show that the once a father dies, there are certain things that will be missed or there will be
no happiness. That is probably why the white sawmill owner brought the candies for the
bereaved family a...