personifythevanishingaristocracyoftheSouth,stillmaintainingablackservantandbeingruthlessbetrayedbyamoneymakingYanee
Sometimesapartofacharactersbodyoranattributemayconveysymbolicmeaning,forexample,abalefuleyeinEdgarAllanPoeTheTell-TaleHeart4
SymbolusedinworksoffictionisthesymbolicactAnotherindofsymbolcommonlyemployedinworksoffictionisthesymbolicact:anactoragesturewithlargersignificancethanitsliteralmeaning
CaptainAhabinMelvillesMoby-Dickdeliberatelysnapshistobaccopipeandthrowsitawaybeforesettingoutinpursuitofthehugewhale,agesturesuggestingthatheisdeterminedtotaehisrevengeandwillletnothingtodistracthimfromit
AnothertypicalsymbolicactistheburningofthebarnbytheboysfatherinFaulknerBarnBurningitisanactofnomeredestroyingabarn,butanexpressionofhisprofoundspiteandhatredtowardsthatclassofpeoplewhoha