Significance of Arrow signs

The arrow signs the narrator and her colleagues point at one another through the window in "Now More Than Ever" are symbolic of the shunning that occurs in real life as a result of "cancel culture." The characters in the story point at one another as a sign of disapproval—a warning that they are on the cusp of going "beyond the pale" (236), the term used for being canceled. The narrator opts to point her arrow at a colleague called Eastman simply because everyone else is doing the same thing, demonstrating the mob mentality mindset that cancel culture encourages.