Equestrian Symbolism

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…underlying backdrop to John Grady's odyssey. The horse was an important means for the advancement of his dreams. It the figure of romance and intense passion and of the deepest emotions of the human heart. Above all, the horse and his rider will be forever moving on. Like the metaphor of a desert shadow, they will be ever changing and growing until they have "passed and paled into the darkening land, the world to come" (302).