The cabin had become, unintentionally, a repository of all the talismans of his life.
-- Narrator (chapter 2)

Importance: After Ransom loses his job at the hospital and becomes estranged from his wife Judith, he moves into his houseboat. He originally purchased the craft in order to refresh his increasingly despairing reality. However, in this moment from Chapter 2, Ransom begins to realize that the space has instead become a mausoleum of his past and his memories. Ransom uses the boat as a way to hold onto his former life and identity amidst his rapidly changing environs and circumstances.

In a sense the house was a perfect model of a spatio-temporal vacuum . . .
-- Narrator (chapter 6)

Importance: Although Ransom has only been away from his and Judith's house for a week, when he returns to the setting in this scene from Chapter 6, Ransom feels as if he has been gone for many years. He therefore regards the house as the representation...