Vladimir Nabokov Signs And Symbols Analysis

People react differently to pain; not everyone utters an “ouch” there aren’t any painkillers for when a person is mentally hurt Vladimir Nabokov takes advantage of that and manipulates incidental details to form an active synergy of designation. The author insist on Destroying the very characters he has built that have accumulated a personality and aspirations just to get the reader attached to each character , only to be annihilated. The word anguish, when spoken, invokes thoughts of an undesirable, emotional situation the diction used in this story portrays the entire story through the eyes of anguish by toying with the emotional turmoil in which a parent without the accompany of their own genetic subdivision suffers through what it feels like an eternality. Nabokov allows the reader to see the artificial world he created through a pessimistic peephole “for after all living did mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case – mere possibilities of improvement. She thought of the endless waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had …show more content…
Giving an insight into the penniless and underprivileged side of émigré life in America, The story constructs a rather vivid and elaborate image of a family who’s seemingly being torn apart by the possibility of missing the idea of their own son rather than missing him as a person. Because their son is suffering from a physiological misfortune in a poorly understaffed mental hospital and has become incurably deranged with an acute form of paranoia turning objects around him into suspects without any viable evidence, the psychological strain upon his parents are apparent the stress is incredible, the grief intense, the insecurity utterly maddening the couple having to deal with the fact of their only son who’s footsteps no longer echo within the confinements of their own