The Novelist's Grocery List

A novelist's wife found his grocery list on the counter. It read: 'Milk (foreshadowing the white purity of morning), bread (symbolizing the staff of life and perhaps redemption), eggs (twelve, like the apostles, fragile yet full of potential), and cheese (aged, much like the protagonist's regrets).' She texted him: 'Just buy the food. Save the symbolism for your book.' He replied: 'The message arrived. Brief. Stark. Like Hemingway if Hemingway had a wife who understood groceries.'