- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Tempest
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
As she waits for her guests to arrive for the dinner party, Bertha looks out over her garden, which looks beautiful in the gathering dusk.
Bertha’s pear tree becomes a symbol of her unfulfilled desire for Pearl Fulton, and her unexplored homosexuality more generally, throughout the course of the story. This is implied by the fact that the pear tree is described as “perfect” and the idea that it “had not a single bud or faded petal.” The pear tree is unspoiled and ideal, just as Bertha’s desire for Pearl Fulton is unspoiled because it has never been explored. However…