How did the author use the double bass to symbolize the narrator's inner world?
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The Double-Bass (Bloomsbury Classics)

The Double-Bass (Bloomsbury Classics)
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How did the author use the double bass to symbolize the narrator's inner world?
Did anyone else find the narrator's obsession with the double bass both beautiful and unsettling?
What inspired the choice to tell this story from the perspective of a musician with such a limited view of the world?