Danarto’s Rembulan di Dasar Kolam (The Moon Beneath thePond) tells about a wife’s sacrifice in an unfortunatesituation. The wife, is an unfortunate woman whosehusband cheats and treats her disrespectfully. Yet, herspirituality endures her in such situation. Paul Ricoeur’shermeneutics theory proposes the hypothesis that theanalysis of symbol is a guide to the analysis of text, and theother way around. Both must be submitted to a process ofmetamorphosis or dialectical phenomena. The result of thisanalysis is the emergence of symbolical meaning in variousterms. Rabi’ah becomes a symbol of a wife’s strength. Herwisdom and personality give the way out to her householdproblems. Her social status as well as gender role is thesymbol that religiosity belongs to anyone despite one’ssocial status. From this character, it can be seen that theknowledge of spiritualism is aimed not only vertically (toGod) but also horizontally (to humanity). The title Rembulanor the Moon symbolizes the wife, because, despite hercondition- symbolized as the pond-she endures and stillgives her shine, like the moon.