Cries and Whispers
According to Sitney, the statue in the prologue may be Apollo or Orpheus. If the artistic, doomed Agnes matches Orpheus as well as Bergman, Agnes' mother may correspond to Eurydice (representing "the green world"). P. Adams Sitney concluded that "Cries and Whispers" tells of an "Orphic transformation of terror into art, of the loss of the mother into the musical richness of autumnal color".