Explain the relationship of the characters to the carp throughout Wang's "The Carp."

In "The Carp", by Yun Wang, the use of the carp to represent something deeper is an example of Synecdoche. The carp is used to represent the pain and injustice of her father's imprisonment. The carp is dedicated to Wangs father, and many of the poems in her little book tell stories from that period.