Tag: Signs and Symbols
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Just Because You’re Seeing Things Doesn’t Mean They Aren’t There
Lots of good study material on Nabokov’s shortest short story, Signs and Symbols. I personally think Nabokov’s general idea was this: The young man is considered insane because he fears inanimate objects, but by the end of the story, we fear the telephone because of the potential message it might convey to the elderly couple.…