Mirror And The Carousel In Something Wicked This Way Comes

In the novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” the author uses the mirror and the carousel to symbolize the character Miss Foley. Ray Bradbury uses “vanished into the mirror ocean,”(Bradbury 63) “blind she walked,”(63) and “she look like myself, many, many years ago”(65) to explain that the mirror maze portrayed a person’s deepest desire. This shows that Miss Foley regrets things such as not getting married and having kids and therefore wants to be young again in order to fix her sorrow. The mirror maze reflects Miss Foley as a young blind girl because they want her to accept the wish of becoming young again in order for the carnival to get her soul, yet with a twist that she won’t be able to see herself for she has sinned. The carousel also