The following is a list of items from the short story along with "guesses" from the Block 2 class about what each of the items might suggest or symbolize. These predictions were made before reading the story in order to potentially help in a reading of the story at the allegorical level.
- Prospero -- prosperity, wealth, nobility
- Abbey -- religion, God, the devil, the world
- Party guests (masked) -- hiding, facelessness, mysteriousness
- 7 -- luckiness vs. unluckiness, religion and creation, 7 Deadly Sins (e.g., wrath, greed, sloth, etc.)
- Blue -- security, "baby blue," water, sky, possibility
- Purple -- royalty, regalness
- Green -- nature, life, prosperity, luck, greed
- Orange -- caution, loneliness
- White -- calmness, purity, a coming together of everything
- Violet -- youthfulness, childishness
- Black/Red -- death, life, gore, blood, fire
- Clock -- time's endless progression, the inevitability of death for all
- Masked figure -- death personified, fear, the devil
