Tridden sees within the jar the form of her three-year-old son Foley, whom she lost in the swamp. To Juke Marmer, the thing in the jar represents a horrible childhood experience as a child, he drowned a litter of newborn kittens.
Moreover, each individual sees in the jar the manifestation of some deep evil, some dark and secret sin, or some hidden guilt. No one can seem to agree on the thing's eye or hair color, and the thing seems to move it even seems to change. Strangely, however, each person who looks at the jar sees something different in it. Folks from miles around come to his shack to sit, stare, and philosophize over his jar. When he takes the jar home, Charlie's poorly constructed living room becomes a palace and the jar becomes it emperor. with its peeled, dead eyes staring out at you and never seeing you." The protagonist of "The Jar" is Charlie, a man so charmed with the jar that he persuades the carnival owner to sell it to him. This story takes the reader to a carnival side show and to "one of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma. Summary and Analysis: The October Country.Summary and Analysis: Medicine for Melancholy.
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