This study examined the symbolic meaning of rubber companies and German romantic music, noting that the “Clock” serialized in Fujinnotomo in 1934. Yokomitsu induced the reader’s participation through descriptions related to the fourth person(selfconsciousness), coincidence of “Pure Novel Theory” about Utsu, a point-of-view character who does not know the inner stories surrounding the characters of the rubber companies. In addition to the merger of a rubber companies, Mine showed a symbolic image of expanding Japanese household system by marrying Akiko, who was not bound by the Japanese household system. Yokomitsu presented German romantic music, imprinting on the reader that the Japanese military cooperated with Germany to maintain sovereignty over the South Seas, a rubber supplier after Japan withdrew from the League of Nations, and at the same time tried to realize the world of possibility symbolized by ‘pure sound’ of Utsu. Yokomitsu introduced a method that allows readers to understand for themselves the fact that the merger of rubber companies, the problems of political marriage, and German romantic music, which were revealed through the children of four families who ran a rubber companies, were intertwined with the political situation of the time. Yokomitsu warns of a dark catastrophe in which Japan is trying to apply its household system overseas as well, creating a world of automobiles rather than cavalry.本研究は1934年『婦人之友』に連載された『時計』に描写した、ゴム会社とドイツロマン派音楽が持つ表象的意味について考察した。横光はゴム会社を経営する家の登場人物をめぐる内幕を知らない時点人物である宇津に対する「純粋小説論』の四人称(自意識)、偶然性に関する描写を通じて読者の参加を誘導した。峰はゴム会社の合併だけでなく、日本の家制度に拘束されない明子と結婚することで、家制度を拡張させる象徴的な姿を見せてくれた。横光はドイツ浪漫派音楽を描写し、日本が国際連盟を脱退した後、ドイツと協力したことを読者に刻印させると同時に、宇津の「純正音」が象徴する可能の世界を具現しようとした。横光はゴム会社を運営する四つの家の子供たちを通じて明らかにしたゴム会社の合併、政略結婚の問題、ドイツロマン派音楽は当時の政治的状況とかみ合っているという事実を読者自らが把握させる方式を導入した。横光は日本が騎兵ではなく自動車の世界を作りながら、日本の家制度を海外にも適用させようとする暗い破局に突き進む状況に対して警告している。