st seen when Jenny took the grand tour of her new house. She saw it in Erich's old room, it seemed meaningless but, it too was deceiving. At first it represented his last time with his mother, almost a memento of her, because it was the last gift she had ever given him. But as the novel progressed the true representation of the hockey stick was shown, it represented his evil, his murder weapon that he used to lift the hanging lamp off the nail and drop it in the stock tank where his mother splashed in the water. The green nightgown was an eerie sight throughout the book. The first night they slept together, Erich asked Jenny to wear it, after he told her is was his mothers. It was only when she wore the green nightgown that Erich would become intimate with her. It represented the beginning of a weird future for Jenny, as she willingly wore the green nightgown on that first night. Erich knew at that moment that she would succumb to almost anything he ordered. Later in the novel, it represented Erich's evil and his sick past and it sent a bone chilling shudder at the thought of it. She no longer felt like herself in the presence of the green nightgown. Jenny realized it in the hospital when she began to feel better because she was away from the house and the green nightgown. The most important, and representative non-material trait was when they first met and Erich shook Jenny's hand, their first physical contact with each other. After that, it seemed as though their relationship would bloom into something beautiful, but it turned out to be twisted and sick, due to Erich's devious and conniving ways. Mark held Jenny when she was uncontrollably shivering due to her fear and anxiety is another good example of a non-material cultural trait. She felt safe in Marks arms, which helped her calm down and feel better. Mark knew she was very troubled and she needed help and the only thing he could give her was a hug, whic...