symbolizes Jewel and his mother. As seen throughout the whole novel, Darl continuously refers to Jewel's mother as a horse. The coin, which is half-human, half-animal, represents Jewel's mother because beasts are associated with Jewel and since Darl refers to the coin as being 'incestuous', or meaning to close and favorable in this context, the coin refers to Jewel's mother. The technique of symbolizing an 'incestuous' coin with Jewel's mother shows that Darl believes the world to be corrupt. Since Darl relates Jewel and his mother to a coin that is filled with incest and prejudice (since Addie always favored Jewel), the coin is corrupt and therefore Darl believes that Jewel and his mother are corrupt. Likewise, Darl also associates the 'little spy-glass' with Dewey Dell, the other sibling who committed Darl. The little spy-glass, which "had a woman and pig with two backs and no face", is pornography. The image of a woman who is only showing her back infers that the little picture in the spy-glass is por
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