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The Expensive Food Amanda Buys

These consumables symbolize the luxury, wealth, excess, and carefree nature of the family's existence before the crises begins in the novel.

The Washingtons' Vacation Home

This place symbolizes relative stability and safety, as well as insulation from whatever is going very wrong in nearby New York City and the rest of the world.

The Blackout

This event is the very beginning of the indications that there are large-scale negative events happening in the country and possibly the world.

Dirty Dishes in the Sink at the Washingtons' House

These objects represent the differences, at least initially, between the Washingtons and Amanda's and Clay's families.

Phones and Technology

When the blackout happens and no one can get any information, the characters begin to realize how reliant they have become on technology and the Internet.

Money

The characters begin to wonder towards the end of the...

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