The punch is significant of one of the short stories in this compilation called ‘The Cut-Glass Bowl’. This story revolves around a woman and one of her wedding presents, a cut-glass bowl that seems to curse her and cause her and her family misfortune. We brought punch because during one of the scenes in that short story, her husband forces the woman to make a very strong alcoholic punch and serve it in that cut-glass bowl.
The chocolate coins we brought are symbolic of another one of the short stories in this collection. This particular story was called ‘Dalyrimple Goes Wrong’ in which a man named Bryan Dalyrimple comes back home from fighting in the war, is welcomed home a hero, and when his welcome wears out, he realizes his parents never left him anything to inherit… so he starts a life of crime and begins to continuously rob various places while stuck in the mindset he deserves more than life is treating him with. The chocolate coins represents all the stolen goods he got away with. The lemon cookies are symbolic of the first story of the book, ‘The Offshore Pirate’. In this story, a very rebellious and witty flapper gets kidnapped by a band of ‘pirates’ or otherwise seen as a small band of jazz musicians. The young rebel finds herself falling for the captain of the pirates but in the end, it turns out that it was all an act and that the ‘captain’ was actually one of her suitors from the beginning. The lemon cookies represent the lemon that she happened to consume as she fought with her uncle about her choices as a flapper and her meeting with her suitor. |