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What can crabs symbolize?

In A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses the crab as a symbol of death and despair. The crabs that Pelayo catches all die and the stench is enough to give their newborn baby a fever. So Pelayo throws all of the crabs he has caught back into the ocean in hopes the stench goes away. He believes if the smell goes away, his newborn baby will get better.

Well in our world, crabs are used to symbolize many things. One thing the crab is used to symbolize is the horoscope cancer. The Crab signifies prosperity, success and high status in Chinese symbolism because the Chinese word referring to its shell is a pun on the term used for the highest score a candidate can make on the Chinese Imperial Examinations.

Crabs can symbolize many things, such as Trust, Protection, and Regeneration. They can symbolize Protection because of their very hard, and rough outer shell. Their shell protects them from many things. Such as if a predator comes to try to attack and eat the crab the shell would make it nearly impossible to get to the soft crab meat. They symbolize trust because inside of their packs, crabs are very loyal to each other and they always stick together. And lastly they symbolize regeneration because Native Americans back then thought that everybody who died would be reincarnated as a crab or another type of sea animal.