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I suppose there are symbols since critics keep finding them. If you do not mind I dislike talking about them and being questioned about them. It is hard enough to write books and stories without being asked to explain them as well. Also it deprives the explainers of work. If five or six or more good explainers can keep going why should I inter fere with them? Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
Ernest Hemingway, in an Interview in the Paris lleview, Spring, 1958.
Yes, the paralysis of Sir Clifford is symbolic — all art is au fond symbolic, conscious or unconscious …. I did not deliberately work symbolically. But by the time the book was finished, 1 realized what the unconscious symbolism was.
D. II. Lawrence, in a letter, September 12, 1920.
This paper will analyze a symbol shared — the use of gloves — by two very different American writers, Mark Twain