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Symbolism In That's A Fox By Clive Smith

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At the same time, Smith uses animals to symbolize the state of characters. The story’s narrator, Clive, hears what he believes to be a child crying in the park. Clive’s companion, Hanwell, corrects him: “That’s a fox,” he says. “They scream that strange scream” (Black, 1070). Walking toward the “piteous wail,” Clive and Hanwell find a fox “collapsed on its knees upon the ground,” not visibly maimed but clearly suffering. Smith uses the fox to symbolize the emotional and psychological state of the two men. Each of them are wailing and crying out for help in their own way. As Clive explains that “both suffered dramatic reversals of fortune and recognized immediately that [they] had failure in common” (Black, 1068). Therefore, it is believed that
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