the graduate symbolism water
First water symbolism in The Graduate was an important part of its imagery, the papers contended. The leading character is a young man named Benjamin Braddock, and in Ben's room there is a small aquarium.is pursuit of her is a hectic one, made difficult by all manner of barriers and traps: fraternity make-out kings, jealous/hurt husbands, suspicious landlords, cars that run out of gas, and just bridges themselves -- with water beneath them naturally. There is other symbology to The Graduate.