Further, Dante highlights one more feature of the Type Five character, as he portrays the Miserly as “unrecognizable”—the Pilgrim cannot recognize anyone of these sinners because their concern with wealth left them undistinguished in life. Thus, Dante symbolically communicates the shadow effect of Avarice on the individual: by holding on and holding in, you end up carrying a heavier load (rather than a lighter one) and wind up being impossible to be seen and related to in the world of others.
