Signs and Symbols
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Mr. and Mrs. Weltman travel across an American city to visit their adult son, who is being cared for in a sanatorium. Their son has long been preoccupied with hidden meanings and secret patterns in ordinary things, and his parents have learned to handle his beliefs gently. Each visit leaves them weighing his fragile state against their own hopes. This short story, one of Nabokov's most admired, examines the uneasy distance between how people read the world and how the world actually is, and the tenderness and fear that bind a family together under strain.
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