Symbols

I just read five articles about symbolism and I got to tell you that I’m really none the wiser.

Aside from the common agreement that any long pointy object in a story is a symbol for … erm … fertility (or something like that); and that red is a symbol for either love, jealousy or death (depending on the context), I’m lost as to how to apply symbolism to story-writing in any coherent way.

A little help here guys?

No?

Okay – after reading a bit moreI’m a tad further on.

Starting with a basic de...