"Berenice said finally... 'I can see right through them two gray eyes of yours [Frankie's] like they was glass. And what I see is the saddest piece of foolishness I ever knew'" (McCullers, 107).
The above passage provides an example of symbolic imagery. Berenice can easily see through Frankie because of the universality of the struggle with which she is coping. Berenice asserts her knowledge by claiming she can see through Frankie's eyes as if they were glass, and that she sees "the saddest piece of foolishness [she] ever knew." This statement affirms Berenice's (and likely, the reader's) feelings that Frankie's expectations regarding the wedding are overly idealistic and unrealistic. Gray also serves as a motif in this story, representing the dull familiarity Frankie faces. Referring to her eyes as gray affirms the claim that although she may change her name (Frankie > F. Jasmine > Frances), she still remains the same person, whom Berenice knows very well.
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