"The horrible danger was over"-Explain or, "It was ready for life again"- Explain

This is taken from Katherine Mansfield' short story, The Fly. The sentence is related to fly episode of the story. Here,  the hard attempt of the fly to restore itself to life against miss fortune is very precisely presented.

               When the Boss was in deep sorrow for his  only died, son he discovered a fly in his ink pot. He tried again and again to revive itself from the pot, but it could not.As the boss brought it out and placed it on a piece of blotting paper, it tries to remove ink from its body and wings and to fly again. After persistent efforts, it succeeded. It was out of danger. It could feel it self saved from death. It was about to start a life anew.

                The single sentence carries a symbolic meaning. It indicates how the struggle of life is to be faced. The fly stands here  as the symbol of constant efforts for survival against hard destiny. The will to live is life itself.