"As soon as I had tightened my bow there was a burst of applause, but I was still nervous. However, as I ran my swollen fingers over the strings, Mozart's phrases came flooding back to me like so many faithful friends"(6)
In this story the violin is a very important symbol of the society that Lou and Narrator have been forced to leave behind. This makes the violin very important for both Narrator and Lou because it allowed them to remember what they can still go back to. It allowed them to keep their sanity and moral higher by comparison. If they were left to reeducation without this object then the idea of being able to return to Modern Society would seem much more lost and distant. The Violin is a constant reminder of what they left behind and what they can look to for the future.
