from the text to support your answer. she does not believe her. Vita even indicates that she thinks her father may come to see the show. This lack of logical thinking on Vita’s part causes Victoria to become frustrated and prompts her to use a sarcastic remark to make her point. Vita begins to realize that the Greek gods no longer exist. The implication is that her sacrificial ceremony may have been meaningless, which would mean she didn’t cause Old Farfel to leave, she didn’t cause Helen to get sick, and she may not be successful in bringing her father back. The last line in the story references a swan. Find the other When the swan is first introduced, it establishes the connection examples in the story where a swan is mentioned and between fathers and swans. Victoria says, “Well, her father was a consider the context clues in those instances to determine swan and her mother was too young to have children” in regards to the symbolism of a swan. Helen’s father, which establishes the swan as a symbol for fathers. In the next instance, Vita dreams about a swan. It is, “a swan that flies in circles over the ocean.” This reference was made following the recollections of her father. This establishes the symbol of the swan as representing her own father. In the last instance, at the end of her play, Vita “can hear the beating of a swan's wings, and then, nothing at all.” At this point the reader can draw the conclusion that the swan symbolizes her father and that she has now accepted that he is gone and will not return.
from the text to support your answer. she does not believe her. Vita even indicates that she thinks her father may come to see the show. This lack of logical thinking on Vita’s part causes Victoria to become frustrated and prompts her to use a sarcastic remark to make her point. Vita begins to realize that the Greek gods no longer exist. The implication is that her sacrificial ceremony may have been meaningless, which would mean she didn’t cause Old Farfel to leave, she didn’t cause Helen to get sick, and she may not be successful in bringing her father back. The last line in the story references a swan. Find the other examples in the story where a swan is mentioned and consider the context clues in those instances to determine the symbolism of a swan. When the swan is first introduced, it establishes the connection between fathers and swans. Victoria says, “Well, her father was a swan and her mother was too young to have children” in regards to Helen’s father, which establishes the swan as a symbol for fathers. In the next instance, Vita dreams about a swan. It is, “a swan that flies in circles over the ocean.” This reference was made following the recollections of her father. This establishes the symbol of the swan as representing her own father. In the last instance, at the end of her play, Vita “can hear the beating of a swan's wings, and then, nothing at all.” At this point the reader can draw the conclusion that the swan symbolizes her father and that she has now accepted that he is gone and will not return.
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