Water

In Evans’ book, water is generally used to symbolize a danger or threat. However, it is also given a more positive or at least neutral connotation in how it is shown to be ubiquitous, either in a societal sense or a natural one. In the final sentence of “Happily Ever After” (1), the narration acknowledges both the danger and beauty of Lyssa’s existence through a description of an underwater scene in the music video she participates in, stating “there she was lovely and monstrous, arranging the gift shop baubles, the snow globes and deck prisms pointing toward her, casting tiny shadows, leaving the smallest spaces on her body all lit up with danger” (17-18). “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain” (18) begins with a reflection on the Biblical destruction of the world by water, which is used to segue into Rena’s point of view that...