... is from others and this object is the best symbol the author had chosen. As we all know unicorns are different from the rest if the horses because of the horn they got on their head that have made them to be different which is almost the same as Laura's case in her case her disability is her ... have made her to be separate from the rest of the people around her in society. And when tom's friend brake that horn that finally show its time for her to go out and be just like others and to finally realize there is no different between her and others. All the above ... ...

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... positive. He wishes to give her confidence and to help her. He leads her in a clumsy dance around the room accidentally knocking the glass unicorn off the table, breaking its horn. Laura did not have a reaction to this. She said that now the unicorn is now just a normal horse "I"ll just imagine he had an operation. The ... horn was removed to make him feel less- freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the horses, the ones that don't have horns- (Williams 86). Instead of helping Laura ... her false hopes. Laura's confidence diminishes when she learns that Jim is affianced. Immedia...

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... and Jim's conversation, Jim clumsily knocks over a piece of Laura's glass collection. It happened to be the unicorn. On the fall, the unicorn lost its horn. Laura claims, "I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less "freakish! Now he'll feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have ... horns - Perhaps this claim not only relates to the unicorn, but also to Laura. The loss of the horn may symbolize the beginning of the loss of Laura's flaw. Not her physical defect, but her lack of confidence and self-esteem. She is just as delicat...

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... . Its purpose is completely opposite of practical and realistic. Laura doesn't seem to realize this, however, the irony describes Laura's own world of illusion. When the "horse with the horn" loses the horn and becomes just like the others, Laura gives it to Jim, in a symbolic gesture. It has become normal, like everybody else, and Laura had to send it off with ... ...

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... through Laura's psychological problems, telling her that she has "inferiority complex," explaining her difficulties with facing reality (1446). The unicorn is also fragile, much like Laura's physical condition. When the horn breaks off, Laura says that it will make the unicorn "feel less-freakish," (1449). Jim had just made Laura feel normal by saying that the world is "full of common ... ...

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