symbols

I found the symbols in the White Heron very disturbing.  The tree you could obviously tell stood for the man after Lindsey pointed it out.  It was just creepy how it described a sexual scene.  I was totally oblivious to the entire thing.  The white heron seemed to stand for like pure, so almost like a symbol of a virgin.  The girl maybe didn't want to tell the guy where the bird was because of this reason because she wanted to lose her virginity.  Another symbol in the story could be the wallpaper.  The wallpaper is a huge part of the story, and it is almost like it mesmerizes the narrator. I think the author of the White Heron had a very sick point of view.   In the yellow wallpaper I felt that the house used to be a psychiatric ward.  The chains were a symbol to represent this.  The scratches and marks on the wall were also good representations of this.  The girl in the story seems to be getting worse and worse and I kind of feel like she is dreaming that she is at her house, but she is really living in a psych ward where her husband comes and visits a lot.