【導(dǎo)讀】s“TheTel-TaleHeart.”4.SymbolusedinworksoffictionisthesymbolicactAnotherkindofsymbolmonlyemployedinworksoffictionisthesymbolicact:anactoragesturewithlargersignificancethanitsliteralmeaning.CaptainAhabinMelvile?sMoby-Dickdeliberatelysnapshistobaccopipeandthrowsitawaybeforesetingoutinpursuitofthehugewhale,agesturesuggestingthatheisdeterminedtotakehisrevengeandwilletnothingtodistracthimfromit.Anothertypicalsymbolicactistheburningofthebarnbytheboy?sfatherinFaulkner?