Snowstorms
Snowstorms symbolize the inevitable external forces the narrator’s family must overcome in order to survive. Ultimately, this inevitability highlights the lack of control that people have over their circumstances. In the first sentence of…
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Night
In “Night,” the night itself represents the narrator’s struggle to come to terms with her unconscious mind. The narrator’s urges to kill her sister Catherine only surface at night—during the day, she and her…
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Town
The distant town highlights the isolation of the narrator’s family and hints at the opportunity that beckons just beyond their small world. The difficulty that the narrator’s family experiences getting to the doctor during…
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