In her short story "Twirler", Jane Martin uses symbolism to show that in a world where people are dependent on a higher power they are willing to sacrifice themselves to believe they are connected to a god. At the start of the piece, a girl named April March starts to relate her experiences as a twirler, and how it is at first a successful venture. Unfortunately, she later had "[her] left hand..crushed in a riding accident by a horse named Big Blood Red" (17). With such a name, the horse is the representation of Satan in April's life, who "clip[s] [her] wings" (17). But that tragedy proved to be a turning point for April, who continues to twirl with a new resolve. Even when she faces the accompanying pains with being a twirler, April sees it as "[a] path to suffer ridicule, [and] to be crucified by misunderstanding...