Figurative Language
The subject of the vicar is compared to a master (“Yet strip them and set them on a desert island and the vicar was the master.”). This is fitting because the vicar and a master share these characteristic: a) a superiority to those around them and b) a seemingly higher intellect than their inferiors. This is significant because it highlights the power the vicar has over the farmers simply because he is seems to be more intellectual than they are.
Symbol
The vicar symbolizes the “power” knowledge gives an individual especially for the woman living on the isolated farm because he represents how intelligence can give someone power to those who are commonly overlooked and discarded. Although he is small in size, he is large
