As
a symbolic character:-
“The Tree of Man” is a symbolic
novel. White has used different images and symbols to heighten the effect of
spiritual awareness in different characters to lead from ignorance to spiritual
awareness. In the novel White portrays the married life of Stan Parker, a
farmer of Durilgai and his wife Amy. The word ‘tree’ in the title of this novel
stands for Stan’s quest of growth, for inexhaustible life. In Stan we find ‘the
melancholic longing for permanence, while Amy stands of motion in life. Stan
sets out in each of permanence. He removes all the bushes from his farm and
whishes that his wife should live peacefully in his ‘honest house’ Here they
take roots. They milk cows and grow cabbages. Amy plants garden. The neighbours
also join them. Thus entire threads of the move round Stan’s identity findings
and Amy’s bridal day and her present mental state.
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