Glasses

Glasses are a symbol of masked identity. Both Kathryn and Elizabeth use glasses to mask their identity. Kathryn wears a pair of glasses that are too big for her face so that no one will notice how much she looks like her mother. Elizabeth wears dark glasses because she has led people to believe that she is unable to see. Dark glasses are a symbol of blindness. Elizabeth may wear these glasses to hide the fact that her eyes move as she watches the people with whom she is talking to and what is happening around her.

BAN NAB Paintings

The BAN NAB paintings are symbols of a feint. While emotions are strong enough about the electric line that someone might kill someone to get his way about the line, that is not what happened here. Horowitz includes this subplot to distract the reader from the...