Starting with symbolism that pertains to the setting of the play we can talk about the “cold’ that appears throughout the play. The cold is a symbol for her relationship that Minnie had with John and her preserve jars are a symbol for Minnie. The lines “She worried about that when it turned so cold. She said the fire’d go out and her jars would break”(lines 87-89) this can be interpreted as when the fire went out in their relationship they would become cold to one another. Eventually the jars (Minnie) would crack and she would lose her mental stability. Another symbol of Minnie losing her mental stability is the quilt that the women believed she was knotting seen “We think she was going to - knot it”(line 297) The women saw the quilt that minnie had …show more content…
She felt trapped, her life had no joy in it, and she was subservient to the men in society. Earlier in life she felt like the canary that she had, like a songbird that was free to do as she pleases. When she had the bird there was no reason for it to be put in a cage, but she wanted to make it feel how she had these inferences are also somewhat made in the play “ She- come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself…” (line 275) “How - she - did - change” (line 276). Then later we can assume that John got quite annoyed with the bird and its singing, so he decided to kill it and wring its neck. This is a symbol for Minnie feeling that her freedom was killed/taken away from her by John. So then Minnie decided to get even with John and kill him, and it’s not true that a normal person would do this. Although as discussed earlier Minnie already lost some of her mental stability. So here Susan is showing that women can break free from their chains in the oppressive male dominated society. She also shows this even more through some iconic scenes throughout the