19. What is the symbolic significance of the mole's end

[Jen]

19. What is the symbolic significance of the mole's end

[Jen]

He dies sitting on a bench facing a cricket field with his neck broken. Jim and Bill met in school where Jim was a known athletics star. In fact Jim and Bill knew each other from the cricket field. On one of Bill's documents that Smiley is sifting through he (Bill) writes "his face was familiar from the cricket field; it turns out we both played in some silly scratch team without exchanging a word."

Later in that same chapter Jim and Bill "walked solemnly down to the Parks, I sit on a bench with a stop watch, and big Jim gets into his running kit and lopes twenty circuits."

It's all quite clever really.