One major symbol presented in the story is that of the fire escape, which has a different meaning and function for each of the Wingfield characters. For Tom, the fire escape is a means of escape from fire, not the type of fire that burns structures down but “the slow and implacable fires of human desperation” (I, p. 1780). Tom’s mother is d

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