I Who Have Never Known Men
What does the act of counting represent to the narrator in the novel, I Who Have Never Known Men?
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The narrator's counting habit is symbolic of order and control. She first acquires this habit when she starts counting her heart beats in the bunker. She does so in order to track time. However, over the course of the years following, she begins to rely on counting in order to grant herself emotional stability.
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