The Bath
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Themes
All Themes Loneliness and Death Struggle and Old Age Life, Death, and Social Class
Quotes
Characters
All Characters The Woman John (Husband) The Parents The Niece
Symbols
All Symbols The Bathtub
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The Bath

by

Janet Frame
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The Bathtub

The bathtub symbolizes the way in which elderly people become imprisoned in their own bodies. The first half of the story involves the elderly woman struggling to get out of the bathtub after her bath…

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