... Thomas’s The White Hotel, who, throughout her entire life, is able to predict her tragic and untimely death, as well as the futures of others. ... At the white hotel, she hears the “noises of panic” and “guests crying” (41). ...
Though the visions of death are the most horrifying, the white hotel in Lisa’s hallucinations is the most symbolic of her future plight. The white hotel represents the Holocaust itself. The hotel is always the center of panic in Lisa’s dreams. ... ” As a matter of fact, “hotel staff worked wonders in fitting as many people in as possible” (85). ... “There was simply no end to the stream of hopeful visitors who turned up at the white hotel” (58), just as there was no end to the string of people, hoping to survive the ordeal before them, gathered in ghettos and concentrations camps.
The white hotel ties into the lake surrounding it. ... Lisa dreams of a flood, one of the causes of so many disastrous deaths at the white hotel.
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