![]() ![]() The sun is traditionally a symbol of light, life, heat, fire, and, in its rise and/or setting, rebirth, death, and the cyclical. Symbol: Cold Sunīaldwin writes of the day when Ida and Vivaldo come together for their first official date, "All day long a cold sun glared down on Manhattan, giving no heat" (103). This motif allows Baldwin to convey how the characters are doing something both dangerous and exhilarating, something that might destroy them or let them fly. Vivaldo sits on the edge of a roof, unnerving his companions Rufus and Leona live at the very tip, the very fringes, of the island of Manhattan Eric talks of falling when he is with LeRoy Vivaldo has a vivid dream of Rufus falling and then has sex with Eric and feels himself falling and many more. There are several instances of falling in the text-some literal, like Rufus's suicide, and some suggestions or evocations of being on the edge, of risking losing oneself in the void, of potentially being unable to stop the plummet. ![]()
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