Finally, with my newly acquired knowledge of the novel, I will attempt to analyze Lisa and explore a variety of Freud"s psychoanalytic theories and defense mechanism, to see how Lisa may apply to them and see how she exhibits them throughout the novel.

             Parallels and Symbolism.

             The metaphysical characteristics that Lisa possesses do not become obvious until Freud"s correspondence with her and with the events of Babi Yar which take place in section five. During sections one and two, Lisa"s poetic nature surfaces, alluding and directly paralleling the events leading up to and occurring at the Nazi concentration camp, Babi Yar. The fire, which consumed a portion of the White Hotel, parallels with the fire that consumed the center of the town of residence for Lisa and her stepson Kolya in section five. This is a direct parallel with the fire in the White Hotel. Lisa's passion and sexual excess could explain the fire that blazed within the hotel. Lisa"s heightened sexual excitement prompted such an outburst of passion that the hotel burst into flames. The shocking number of murdered Nazi prisoners and the evils the Germans are responsible for suggest a reason for the fire that attempted to cleanse the city of the German evil, but failed. In the same manner that passion evokes fire, it also evokes hate. This deeply routed hatred, possessed by the Germans toward the Jewish people, provoked the burning of victims by the German troops, so as to allow for more killing and genocide.

             Early in the novel, Lisa is running frantically and blindly, suggesting that she was being hunted. Lisa imagines herself turining into a tree and in order to allude the soldiers. This point parallels with her fight for escape from Babi Yar in section five. She makes many attempts to escape, even showing her Ukrainian passport, but unlike in section two, Lisa does not escape. "A German finished his coffee and strolled to a machine gun" (247, The White Hotel).