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Sure, Shmoop loves literature, but come on, we're cultured people—we have an appreciation for fine arts, too. So let's take a look at the many sculptures in Strange in a Strange Land and see what we can come up with.
But not so fast. There is usually more than one way to interpret a symbol, right? So what if we link the Rodin statues symbolically to Jubal as well. Jubal shrugged off the burden of Caryatid, or to put it in his own words, "Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw" (10.95). And he also knows the pains of growing old like the "La Belle Heaulmière." Just a thought.
Can you find any other symbolic meaning in these statues? We're good, we know, but there's always more to say.