Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Winter’s Bone, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Silence and Secrets
Family, Destiny, and Inheritance
Violence and Decay
Isolation and Independence
Women and Matriarchy
Summary
Analysis
Ree walks home. After a while she sits down on a big rock and puts her headphones on. She plays one of her tapes—The Sounds of Tropical Dawn—and watches the snow fall.
The tapes symbolize a chance at escape for Ree, and she listens to them in times of distress as a way to visualize a different life for herself. .
Themes
