President's Ring and Watch

In "Bon Voyage, Mr. President," the President's wedding ring and watch are symbolic of friendship. At the story's start, Homero and Lázara want to manipulate the President into helping them monetarily. At the story's end, the President ends up leaving his last valuables for the couple, thus signifying the authentic kinship that has formed between them.

The Saint

In "The Saint," Margarito's Saint is symbolic of the mysterious. Indeed, the Saint is in fact the weightless, perfectly preserved body of his late daughter. Carrying the Saint around with him, Margarito infuses his surroundings and interactions with an unsolvable sense of mystery.

Beauty

In "Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane," the woman, called Beauty throughout, is symbolic of beauty itself. The woman is so beautiful that she is unattainable to the narrator. She not only has a spectral presence at the story's start, but...