"Bondage in Roselily" by Alice Walker.

Now I am going to talk to you about bondage in Alice walker's short story "Roselily" The word bondage which I will be talking about has the meaning of restraint or being used a slave therefore not having free will. This is what the main character; Roselily will be subjected to in the short story. Alice Walker ingeniously structures and skillfully tells the story in the sequence of wedding vows. Roselily is about a rural …

…of becoming free, respectable and born anew. And finally she imagines herself "something as a rat, trapped, cornered, scurrying to and fro" she is a victim of her own dreams and passion of being liberated and the husbands hand is like a "clasp of an iron gate" signifying that all exits are closed. She is a prisoner not of her country's but of her husband, trapped, never to be free and once again a slave.