Importance of Sarah's Dress

The dress is symbolic of Sarah’s status. While B.J. indicates that the dress is made well and may indicate that she comes from a position of wealth, it is later used as a symbol of immortality. Harold suggests that the dress shields bullets. Perhaps this indicates that a person of a higher class is immune to some of the difficulties and dangers of the lower classes. Sarah sheds the dress in her final disappearance; it is referenced as being like a cocoon. This may symbolize that how a person’s ability to adapt to social changes is better apt to survive.