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Van

This object symbolizes obsessive surveillance. This white object is associated with the milkman and though it is not the only object of its sort in his possession, it is the object with which most of the community, including middle sister, associates the milkman. So when a week after she begins running with third brother-in-law in order to ward off advances from the milkman she sees this object in a nearby alley, she realizes that her efforts have been in vain.

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These objects symbolize the danger inherent in misogyny. After the milkman's first intrusion into middle sister's life, she attempts to continue her run. However, she says that because she had been lying to herself in trying to go on with her usual routine, she does not see these objects associated with sex work. She slips on these objects as a result and falls down onto...

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