The Lagoon Scenery(after the first conversation The white man came out of the hut in time to see the enormous conflagration of sunset put out by the swift and stealthy shadows that, rising like a black and impalpable vapour above the tree-tops, spread over the heaven, extinguishing the crimson glow of floating clouds and the red brilliance of departing daylight. In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights resembled an oval patch of night sky flung down into the hopeless and abysmal night of the wilderness Symbol: sun ---wife; conflagration ---the burn The implication: sunset, extinguishing, departing ---death; hopeless and abysmal ---inner feelings of ArsatPage  9 The Lagoon Scenery (after the first conversation): The white man came out of the hut in time to see the enormous conflagration of sunset put out by the swift and stealthy shadows that, rising like a black and impalpable vapour above the tree-tops, spread over the heaven, extinguishing the crimson glow of floating clouds and the red brilliance of departing daylight. In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights resembled an oval patch of night sky flung down into the hopeless and abysmal night of the wilderness. Symbol: sun --- wife; conflagration --- the burn The implication: sunset, extinguishing, departing --- death; hopeless and abysmal --- inner feelings of Arsat