"Ichthyology" registers Roy's distress indirectly through close attention to the fish he keeps in a tank. Roy take special attention to the fish and you see fish a big symbol though out the novel. An example would be the ending of the story book catching a fly, setting off a "million tiny ripples of panic". In the Chinese culture a fish symbolically represents "abundance" and "affluence". The Chinese a referring to an abundance of wealth, luck, or even love, but David Vann took it in a different light and used the fish to represent a different type of abundance. He used it to represent the abundance of sadness, stress, and confusion that Roy was feeling growing up without his father.
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