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The Symbolism Of Margaret Atwood's 'The Window'

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One characteristic of the house; the window; symbolizes not only the opportunities of the outside world but the feeling of being trapped by her husband and other men in the world. The window shows her the way that everything could be and the things she wants. The narrator gets sick of looking out the window explaining “I don't like to look out of the windows even - there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast.”(656) The narrator has to hide and lay low, believing that in order to be like the rest of society she had to creep through the window. She also does not want to see all the other women in society because she knows that they are also having to creep and it is a reflection of her and the way society is. She explains
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