Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
All You Can Eat BuffetThe setting of The Price of Salt starts small and quickly grows to cover almost the entire U.S. It's like starting inside a salt shaker, unscrewing the top, climbing out, and...
Narrator Point of View
Third-Person LimitedAlthough the novel is written in third-person, we only get one point of view: Therese's (hence the limit). Through Therese, we get to explore the country and Therese's sexuality...
What's Up With the Title?
This is one of the rare books where the title isn't mentioned in the book aside from the cover page. We're talking about the original title, of course, which is The Price of Salt, not the re-releas...
What's Up With the Ending?
Movin' On UpMost road trips end with the road trippers reaching their destination, whether it's Walley World in National Lampoon's Vacation or the bottom of the Grand Canyon in Thelma and Louise. B...
Tough-o-Meter
(3) Base Camp In one scene of The Price of Salt, Therese reads A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Don't worry, though—this book is no James Joyce novel (dude's known for writing Ulysses, on...