"A Hunger Artist"

I thought that this was a very strange and depressing story. The symbolism that i found in this story was "hunger". Not because that author did not eat, and fasted. But because the hunger could represent his will to fast longer than he has done before, and to keep stretching his limits. Also his hunger could represent how he is never satisfied with how famous he becomes. This is for at least in the beginning, but by the end people don't really pay attention to him. Also his "hunger" could mean that he is never satisfied; when someone asked him why he didn't eat he said, "because I couldn't find the food I liked".