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Comparing The Garden Of Eden And The White Circle

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The apple tree in this story represents temptation and the fall from grace like in The Garden of Eden. In The White Circle, Anvil attempts to take the apples because "Your old man owns everything in sight. I ain’t got nothin’" showing that he was trying to satisfy his hunger,but is later redeemed when he refuses to take them (Clayton 4). And in The Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were told not to eat from the tree but were later tempted by Satan causing their banishment from the garden and their fall from

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