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This 5 page report discusses Nabokov’s short and pitiful story, “Signs and Symbols,” in terms of how the characters make sense of their world which, in turn, determines how the reader is to make sense of the story. No secondary sources.
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using this paper properly! Introduction The writing of Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) has often been considered to be almost insufferably enigmatic with its symbolism and allusions. The Russian-American novelist, poet,
and critic, created brilliant and challenging novels and stories that earned him the highest critical acclaim as a major and international literary figure. Of course, he was most famous
(and most shocking) for his novel, "Lolita" (1955). Nabvokovs work almost always carried the unique hallmark of a complex tragicomedy, in that drama time and space are stretched and
distorted as numerous metaphors and similes tossed about like a jugglers balls. Nabokovs "Signs and Symbols" also offers an expansive framework through which a reader may wander looking for clues
to the identity and true meaning of the symbols he presents. The rain, the colorlessness of the mother, the reference to "The Prince" (a man already an American for
forty years), the dying bird trapped in a puddle, the old mans hands and more all serve as symbolic in a variety of ways. Even the boys neuroses serve
as a reminder of the many ways in which interpretation is the final arbiter of reality. Making Sense of Their World For the old couple, the parents, there is no
sense to their world. In fact, the lack of sense serves as the only unifying factor that does, in its own twisted way, make sense. Their son can only
make sense of the numerous and apparently haphazard details of daily life as being directed at or about him. The elderly couple of the story is nameless, virtually without
features. Her pale face has no artifice of make-up. "She presented a naked white countenance to the fault-finding light of spring days" the reader is told in only
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