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personify the vanishing aristocracy of the South, still maintaining a blackservant and being ruthless betrayed by a moneymaking Yanee. Sometimes a part of a characters body or an attribute may convey symbolic meaning, for example, a baleful eye in Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart4. Symbol used in works of fiction is the symbolic actAnotherind of symbol commonly employed in works of fiction is the symbolic act: an act or a gesture withlarger significance than its literal meaning. Captain Ahab in MelvillesMoby-Dick deliberately snaps his tobacco pipe and throwsit away beforesetting out in pursuit of the huge whale, a gesture suggestingthat he isdetermined to tae his revenge and will letnothpical symbolic act is the burning of the barn by the boys father in FaulknerBarnBurningis profound His hatred extends to anything he does not possess himself and,beyond that, burning a barn reflects the fathers memories of thewaste and extravagance of war and theelement of fire spoketo some deep mainspring in hisbeing.5. A symbol is a trope In a broad literary sense, a symbol is a trope that combinesa literal and sensuous quality with an necessary or suggestive aspect. However, inliterary criticism it is necessary to distinguish syAn image experience or of an object that can be known involves no necessarythe obviouss are usually fullof thisind stories by Conard and Hemingwayinvolves aturn on theliterary meaning of the words.For example, inthe linesItis a beauteous evening, calm and free; /The holy time is quiet as a nun, the second line is highly figurative while the first line evoimage when it powerfully evoes that referent; whereas a symbol functions like an image but differs from it ingoingbeyond the evocation of the objective referent by makingond itself. In other words, a sysmbol is an image that evo; it evoes anith the emphasis beinglaid onthe latter part. As Coleridge said,It partaes of the realitytelligible.Metaphor implied analogy imaginatively identifying one object