Symbolism and Allegory in

The Story entitled "Little Black Fish" written by Samad Behrangi is a parable which expresses our surrounding life realities. Main core and texture of the story is based on mysteries by which plot of the story has been enriched. The storyteller has composed his story according to romantic movement and basics of this school including invitation to life realities with serious intentions, praising human values and freedom which have been reflected well in it. It is worth mentioning that romantic aspect of the story has never detached it from human's life realities and has not caused its fall into hallucination and idealism. Hence this story is around real events of life and it aims to encourage humans to optimize life quality. Present study investigates structure and content of most famous story written by contemporary well known Iranian storyteller Samad Behrangi in descriptive-analytical method and themes combined with allegory and parable in the light of romantic movement. Besides, characters and events of the story have been analyzed with mystery and parable approaches. Among most important findings of the study is that romantic aspect of Behrangi's story has origin in realities that he has touched them deeply and mysterious elements of the story represents conditions of the writer's time.