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No Fixed Address

In Aritha Van Herk's "No Fixed Address", one key symbol surfaces many times. The main character's name is Arachne, which means spider, and sets the reader up to understand the central symbol in the novel—the spider web. The reader sees several other instances of webs showing up throughout the novel. Arachne's dependence on the road and her random driving is another form of web in "No Fixed Address". To tie in Arachne's driving with webs, we see Thomas's maps as webs of sorts. The most important web that Arachne is seen to weave is that perverbial web of lies—a person can never escape from that web. In the end, Arachne is indeed caught in her own web, and in the end, she is caught in it.
Arachne, in mythological terms, is the master weaver; the women who pitted herself against a god and lost, thus being turned into a spider. Arachne Mantea is much the same. She is constantly putting herself into categories that she doesn't belong in. Much of her life, Arachne......

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