Previous
Miss Fern
The Ravine
The ravine symbolizes the unknown and, more specifically, the mysterious boundary between life and death. The ravine runs through the middle of town, separating Lavinia and her neighbors from the community’s main center, where Lavinia’s…
read analysis of The Ravine
Footsteps
Near the climax of the story, when Lavinia walks through the ravine alone, footsteps symbolize the inevitability of death. Bradbury pays attention to two sets of footsteps, first Lavinia’s—she counts her footsteps in order to…
read analysis of Footsteps
The Town Clock
The town clock in the story symbolizes the inescapability of fate. The first sentence of the story is devoted not to main character Lavinia or even to the serial killer the Lonely One but rather…
read analysis of The Town Clock
