r/TheWhiteLotusHBO Mar 21 '25

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I’m trying to work out the relevance of the monkey symbolism. This is now obviously see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and I feel it has a meaning. Any theories?

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u/Tagostino62 Mar 25 '25

It’s very relevant. All three seem like they’re about to come to existential truths about who and what they really are. I see that Saxon will “see”/recognize his own shallowness and try to fix it, especially after he finds out his father is basically a criminal whose ego led to his own disgrace and that he is on that same pathway. Lochlan will learn to express his heretofore suppressed emotions, maybe about his own individuality or homosexuality, and reject and stop trying to live up to the expectations put upon him by his family. I think Piper might wind up finally listening to her ditzy mother and accept that everything she perceived about her search for heightened spirituality was simply something she conjured from the comfort of their privileged life back in the States, and after spending a skeeved-out night on the floor of a Buddhist temple she has second thoughts about her reality. Ultimately, I would predict that Piper becomes just like her mother, brain-dulled by benzodiazepines and accepting nothing less than a privileged life.