'represents to him' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a situation in which someone is conveying information (or a point of view) to someone else. For example, "The professor represented to him the importance of striving for excellence in all his work."
We sense that she understands what that world likely represents to him.
But it's not so much about the destination as the journey; Citizen Kane is less about the identity of Rosebud than what Rosebud represents to him, and to us.
Mr. Michnik, who said he also had good relations with Mr. Miller until the bill was introduced, has not been shy about saying what each man now represents to him.
Swan represents to him a myth, he says the ultimate sailing yacht.
Even a dog, for example, is capable, by virtue of its memory, of having a perception of a prior perception: "[t]hat is why a dog runs away from the stick with which he was beaten, because his memory represents to him the pain which the stick caused him".
From southern Florida's capital of car culture, he heads west inarguably the most American direction on the compass toward the progressive metropolis of Portland, Oregon, a city that represents to him a fascinating if slightly Orwellian vision of a post-automotive future in which urban sprawl and its noisome handmaiden, the car, are kept in constant check.
She and her dancers represent to him the purest form of artistic impudence and intransigence.
He began drawing sophisticated women in New York penthouses drinking cocktails, a tableau that, he said, represented to him the most attractive life.
If the restaurant represented to him "exactly the type of bullshit that rich people find compulsory," one has to wonder why he was compelled to visit it, other than to provoke.
Mr. Cosby spoke recently to ArtsBeat about the creation of the "Fat Albert" cartoon series and its characters, what it represented to him and why he believes it is still relevant.
For instance: when asked the other day what his years as a Texas Ranger represented to him, Rodriguez contemplated the question and said, "I thought it was a time of growth".
