The Green Bicycle

The bike is a symbol of youth and freedom for Sabine. When she discovers that people are staring at her and talking about her, she begins to feel self-conscious about riding the bicycle.

The Letters to Eric Williams

Eric Williams was Prime Minister of Trinidad for a period of years and was one of many black men calling for race reform of that era. Sabine writes dozens of letters to Eric and keeps them as something of a diary of her thoughts, fears, and heartbreaks over her failing marriage. The letters are in a storage area of the house when George finds them, years after Sabine writes them. To George, they represent Sabine's unfaithfulness, despite the fact that George himself has had a series of sexual affairs over the course of their marriage.

The Blimp

Hailed as a tool for police, it is literally...