What does silence symbolize in a story?

Question

What does God symbolize in a story?

In the story a man is obsessed with silence. He is a radio technichian and he cuts out the silence and listens to it at home.

Answer 1

Symbolic silence may vary widely, depending on the scene of the event. It will help to be more specific. God, in majority, symbolizes the ultiment power. A substance that resides all knowledge, all power, all being in most common terms.

Answer 2

As an easel is to an artist is silence to a muscian.

Absence is to the notion of God what the notion of presence is to those who pray.

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