Symbollism in The Awakening and The New England

Little Birds and Chained Up Dogs In many of the stories read today, symbolism is used to give the story or specific characters a special or hidden meaning. One of the most popular items used as a symbol are animals. Because they alive and have some ability to have feelings, they give a more interesting perspective towards the situation they are being used for. In both Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Mary Freeman’s “…

…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.