Symbollism in The Awakening and The New England

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…the chain. In many stories symbolism is used through animals to express a characters situation and feelings. Not only did both these stories use birds and dogs as symbols, but they also used them in the same context. Both women did not want to be chained down like the dogs; they wanted to be free like the birds. Even though these stories were not meant to be similar they were connected through their symbolic message.