The Mariner Symbolism

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All authors tell stories to help readers make sense of the world. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Mariner tells a cautionary tale to a Wedding Guest about to enter a spiritual desert as the one he once knew:
That moment that his face I see,
I know the man that must hear me:
To him my tale I teach. (I. 588-590)

T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock invites a companion along on a journey, “Let us go then you and I” (I. 1) and then proceeds to tell this individual a story about his troubled life. Fitzgerald uses Nick Caraway to narrate the story of The Great Gatsby by saying, “ When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be…at a sort of moral attention forever…Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my …show more content…
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