What is important is that Biddlebaum never understood what actually had happened to him , but subconsciously ``felt that the hands must be to blame (Anderson 1919 , p .5 , hence he was desperately trying to conceal them . In this way , the author of the story establishes the symbolical meaning of hands as that part of human beings which we extend to other people as the manifestation of our fundamental connection with them . And as Biddlebaum got his hands slapped , in both...











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