What are the symbols in the chapter "the oval portrait"?

the symbols in this chapter are :

1. The woman in the oval portrait symbolizes the victim
2. Oval Portrait symbolizes the eternal life of art.
3. Frame symbolizes general objectification.
4. The Painter symbolizes extremism.
5. The dark gloominess of abandoned house symbolizes the classic background of the gothic novel.

"'The Oval portrait" is a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. Elaborate.

"The oval portrait " is indeed a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe which involved the disturbing circumstances surrounding the portrait in the old and abandoned chateaux. The narrator made forcible entrance in the chateau where he later at the same night saw an oval portrait which was never noticed before which was of a girl just ripening into womanhood who was just perfectly beautiful just by the appearance in the portrait which mearly had her head and shoulders. He then noticed and came...

What is the central theme of the story? Who is the woman depicted in the oval portrait?

The central theme of the story is that the painter loved his art more than his wife so be didn't really care about his alive wife but just went after his art. He thought his art was a living example but it was an example without the subject. The woman depicted in the oval portrait is the painter's wife who was maiden of rarest beauty and not more lovely than full of glee. She was the subject of the oval portrait.