BROKEN MIRRORS

There has been a rash of character mirror moments in Season 6. Whether it a metaphor of what is happening in the shifting realities of the show is still undecided. A figurative definition of a mirror is an accurate representation of something else. When a character sees himself in the sideways world mirror, he is not seeing himself but something else (?) (In computer world, to mirror a site is to copy its contents to another site.) A mirror works by reflecting light, and in one sense it means to think deeply upon something.

Jack broke the lighthouse mirrors because someone had been spying on him for a long time.

Sawyer broke a mirror when his sideways partner confronted him on his secret agenda to track down a con man.

Neither were reflective moments. It was done out of pure, spur of the moment anger.