Themes and Symbolism in "Goldfish Floats to the Top of His Life"

At the top of his life, Ted Kosher explained how American companies robbed their souls. People who work for large companies are "machines", so their life has no real. When they started, they had hopes and dreams of being with them, but never did. They look back on their dreams when they are not working but they are not satisfied with their work. Work was tied to the desk, which restored the reality.

The theme of human love for animals is conveyed in the first few paragraphs of the story. The narrator describes the time he spends with animals, the loving animals, and the loving animals. He talked about his pet - birds, goldfish, rabbits, thin dogs, monkeys, and cats. Among all the pets, the narrator loves his cat, Pluto. The theme of the supernatural element is clearly shown in this story. Since there are all kinds of superstitions concerning black cat's bad luck and precursor, the title itself "black cat" itself means a supernatural element. In this story, the narrator hangs him from the branch and kills his pet Pluto, a black cat. After the black cat was murdered he talked about bad luck. His house was burned, leaving only a single wall, leaving the impression of a black cat, and a rope stretched around the neck of the animal. A few days later another black cat appeared before the talker.

Pluto is a black cat that adds goldfish, rabbits, dogs, birds and monkeys to the pet's zoo, the narrator and his wife invited them into their small family to be happy when they married I will. Perhaps his superstition for his wife is real because Pluto looks like his pet over her pet. The close relationship between the cat and the owner will affect the relationship with other pets and their co-owners, and even maintaining the abuse of alcohol. However, the passage of time and the rise of poisoning tolerance ultimately lead to losses, Pluto first loses the hands of the narrator, watches, then loses life at the end of the lasso.

In the 1620s goldfish was highly appreciated on its metal scale in Southern Europe, symbolizing fortune and wealth. A married man became a tradition of providing goldfish to his wife to celebrate the first anniversary of the establishment and is a symbol of prosperity in the future. As the goldfish are increasingly lost, this tradition quickly disappeared. Goldfish was first introduced to North America around 1850 and soon became popular in the United States. As of April 2008, BBC thought that the largest goldfish in the world is 19 inches (48 cm) in size and lives in the Netherlands. At that time, a goldfish named "Goldie" was bred as a pet exceeding 15 inches (38 cm) and 2 pounds (0.91 kg) in a British folkstone aquarium and was named the second largest fish in the world. Behind the fish in the Netherlands