The amethyst pendant is a minor symbol to represent love’s power to connect people across time, place, and family, functioning in exactly the same way as the shilling. Like the shilling, the pendant surfaces throughout multiple narratives, forming a common, concrete thread between them and reflecting the love that each character shows to another when they gift it to them. After Francis steals the pendant from an old woman as a young teenager, he sells it to Kip, who eventually gifts it to Annabel. Annabel, in turn, gives the pendant to Charlotte as a memento of her love. In this sense, the pendant serves as an intergenerational connection among the Westaway family members, regardless of the different circumstances they experience in their respective time periods.
The Amethyst Pendant Quotes in Nine Days
I remember as a child spending ages every morning choosing which shoes I would wear and then worrying all day about the poor ones left behind in the cupboard, about how dejected they must feel having been passed over. Forsaken.
The Amethyst Pendant Symbol Timeline in Nine Days
