By analyzing a symbol as a literary convention used by the author, Junot Díaz finds a way to identify the purpose of the device. In his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), the mechanism is used to develop a specific character and point of view. Symbol is a sensory image that contains rich implications that have a narrow or broad connotation. However, sometimes the reader is left by the author with an unknown meaning of the symbol and is forced to create his own interpretation. This last principle is intentionally brought forward by the author as a literary bait to attract the attention of his audience and push him to continue reading. Furthermore, combined with the symbol is the author's calculated method of using pathos as a way to arouse the emotions of his readers. As a result, the author actually creates an impulse by which the reader will be controlled. The use of a symbol as a literary convention in a novel creates a hidden meaning. A literary convention, a symbol of faceless men, is used by Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz to give meaning and form to his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Díaz uses this symbol a few times in his novel to give more depth to his narrative. The symbol of the faceless men is found in the following scenes: They had guns! He stared into the night, hoping that maybe there were some US Marines out for a walk, but there was only a lone man sitting in his rocking chair in front of his ruined house and for a moment Oscar could have sworn that the guy had faceless, but then the killers got back into the car and drove (Diaz 298). Dejame, he shouted, and when he looked up he saw that it was on...... in the center of the paper...... this example because the personal can suggest to Freud more than a snake” (www .freudfile.org). Furthermore, as defined by Freud, “A symbol is sensorial and concrete in itself, although the ideas it represents may be relatively abstract and complex. A symbol has multiple ideas and some similarity to what it is supposed to represent, which in most cases is an idea that is not recognized or of which the individual is not aware” (www.freudfile.org). Furthermore, Freud explained that “symbols can have very narrow or quite broad ranges of denotation. The range may be limited to an individual or perhaps a small group. People other than the individual or group will not understand the meaning of the symbol. The significance of a symbol can be cultural, in the sense that it is known by members of cultural groups: ethnic groups, religious groups, national groups and so on” (www.freudfile.org).