The Bronze Ornament
The ugly and distasteful bronze ornament that sits on the mantelpiece in the drawing-room of hell represents Garcin’s shifting conceptions of what, exactly, hell is. When Garcin first arrives, he calls the sculpture an “atrocity”…
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Mirrors
The drawing-room’s lack of mirrors represents Sartre’s interest in how perception influences a person’s sense of self. Unable to check her reflection, Estelle feels existentially amiss, as if her mere existence depends upon her ability…
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