The Books
The books in the Red Room symbolise the importance of appearance to the Hooper family.
The Hooper family like to keep up appearances, and seem they are smart and rich, but in fact they are not as smart or as rich as would seem. "There were bound volumes of the Banker's Journal and the Stockbroker's Gazette, and the complete sets of the Victorian novelists, never opened," p17, the books and journals are placed there to make it seem as if the Hooper family read a lot of smartly written books though they have never even opened them.
The books in the Red Room are there to seem smart and educated, but in reality they have never even been opened. Keeping up appearances is very important in the Hooper family.
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