HELP!What is the symbol for The Barber Pole on page 22 of the book Something Wicked This Way Comes?
I haven't read the book in a while, but from my vague memories (and from the movie)...
The barber pole is not a simple symbol. It stands for joy, hope, optimism, life, perpetuity, and time. It goes round and round without beginning and end, and Will wants the barber to leave it going and never turn it off. It's not just hope for the future but a belief that this hope and joy is perpetual and that life cycles from good to bad to good. Nothing ever stays bad.
When our hope, our joy and our faith ends, we give into despair and fear and into our desperate needs. This despair and fear and these cravings are what the carnival later feeds on. (In the movie, the barber pole slows downs and stops when Halloran gives into his fears and dies in the library.)
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