So harvest, and not only of apples, is one element of autumn. When our writers speak of harvests, we know it can refer not only to agricultural but also to personal harvests, the results of our endeavors, whether over the course of a growing season or a life.
So the season can also represent a character’s journey or internal thoughts—the harvest of crops, and the harvest of the reward borne of months of hard, strenuous work. The grim reaper touches down on Halloween night, but you may reap the quiz grade you studied for.
