Glowing - Chapter one
Cronin writes, “ Then one day a man came into the diner.It was Bill Reynolds.He was different, somehow, and the change was no good…This was the same man, but the glow was gone.He looked older, thinner.” Reynolds’s glow has diminished significantly which implies that he has lost the charm which Jeanette had seen when they met first. The glow is symbolic of a physical appeal which denotes an individual’s wellbeing.
Passage - Chapter two
In an email to Paul, Lear writes, “Paul whatever happens, whatever I decide , I want you to know that you have been a great friend to me. More than a friend: a brother. How strange to write that sentence, sitting on a riverbank in the Jungles of Bolivia, four thousand miles away from everything and everyone I’ve known and loved. I feel as if I’ve entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.” The allegorical ‘dark passages’ denote the experiences in life in which one witnesses sad occurrences such as death. Lear makes this observation after witnessing the demise of his teammates in the expedition to Bolivia. The expedition is equivalent to an archetypal ‘dark passage’ which exposes Lear and his colleagues to extreme danger and death.
