Describe symbolism in Signs of Life in the U.S.A. by Sonia Maasik

The book's final selection is Eric Boehlert's "New York's Most Disliked Building" in which he discusses the World Trade Center buildings. These building weren't just architectural structures for the world. They symbolized the American way of life and to some everything that they hated about America that is why they were the object of a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. The Twin Towers opened in 1972 and were always the subject of discussion and fascination because of their size. The builders were looking at cleaning up the neighborhood and making money from the rentals, not at building a symbol of American life.