Metaphor's The Mistress

The Mistress is symbolic as she is an object that the Mayor, the manager of the Artist, uses to keep people inside the city, which is completely under his control. Within the walls of the brightly lit city, there is no artistic creativity present, which is why the Artist was able to quickly draw a crowd with his paintings. At this point the Mayor realizes that he can now capitalize the efforts of our protagonist, so he offers him all of the things at his disposal to keep him stuck inside the city: money, shelter, fame, and finally, love. During the frame where we first see the Mistress, we see the antagonist staring at the Artist in the corner of the picture, here he recognizes that the Artist wants her. So he converses with her later on to go to him and show him a good time, to show the Artist love, to ensure that he will stay inside of the city forever. If a person is in a position of power in the city then she acts as a bribe to keep them from leaving the city and to keep them under the control of the Mayor, by sleeping with them, which is why our protagonist later sees her with the general, the sailor, the preacher, the police officer, and the judge. The artist isn’t hallucinating and seeing her laughing face on every woman within the city, but rather because of her role …show more content…
She gives them temporary company as her service is to keep them happy and content within the city. As shown when we see her on dates with all those men who are in some position of power. The Mayor tells the Mistress who to sleep with, they stay on his side, and the men in power make sure that everybody plays by his rules. The city is completely corrupt and the Mistress is the mediator who keeps the society under the Mayor’s influence. And the Artist is helpless against it, and that is why she laughs at him when he learns how useless it is to