Automobiles in Short Fiction

Cars as symbolic representations ( freedom, mendacious set, power) in stories by Louise Erdrich ( trigger-happy Convertible), Flannery OConnor (Good Man Is hard-fought to Find) basin Steinbeck (Chrysanthemums). The machine is both a means of battery-acid and a symbol of American freedom, and it is employ as a symbol of diverse aspects of American federation by varied authors. It becomes an explicit bidding of freedom and a symbol of spurious American values in a fib by Louise Erdrich, while its freedom is false in a story by Flannery OConnor. John Steinbeck makes use of the railcar as a metaphor for go for and power in The Chrysanthemums. In The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, the automobile of the backing becomes a substitution symbol for the affinity between the ii Chippewa brothers and for the relationship of the American Indian to the youthful world. The story subtly evokes ideas and attitudes about the plight of the Native American without actu ally addressing these issues overtly. The fibber