The sign/symbol I'm choosing is the stage direction when Ophelia lifts up her hands and says "How Shiftless". Ophelia is repulsed by seeing how Eva and Tom kiss. She believes it to be inappropriate and just wrong, possibly even a waste of time to be giving such affection to Uncle Tom. It is such an emotional moment for Ophelia because she is clearly not used to seeing any sort of decency towards a slave and you can tell it boils her blood. I also think it's interesting that when she says "How Shiftless" this time, she lifts her hands. The other times she said it there was no stage direction of any sort of gesture. This gesture I think is Ophelia trying to show that she wants nothing to do with this "behavior" the family is indulging in with Uncle Tom and to show that it's below her. If this were being performed on stage I would laugh for sure. I think it's funny how dramatic she is, and especially because she does it over and over. It's almost like a broken record.