Feet

The narrator’s feet at the time of her return to her parents represent the relatively minor details that her mother focuses on as her mother tries to make her daughter’s story her own. The mother focuses on what she can see and experience through her senses as she is unable to fully enter into the psychological experience of her daughter. The narrator’s feet become a symbol for all of the violence and erasure that she endured throughout her marriage.

Films

Films symbolize the manner in which the narrator believes she has to fake her life with her husband. She cannot be herself in her marriage. Rather she has to play a role. She realizes that the only way to stay safe in her marriage is to perform her role perfectly. She alludes to the drama Twelve Angry Men which is a play in...