Everybody with self-confidence gets mostly well-off, as implied in symbolic narrative (9)
I believe the answer is:
allegoric
'mostly well-off as implied in symbolic narrative' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'everybody with self-confidence' is the wordplay.
'everybody' becomes 'all' (all people).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'self' becomes 'ego' (synonyms).
'confidence' becomes 'ric' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'all'+'ego'+'ric'='ALLEGORIC'
'gets' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for allegoric that I've seen before include "with symbolic meaning" , "serving as symbol" , "Figurative" .)