![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, the offering of a ring as a symbol of marriage, and of Charlie’s becoming a woman and subsequently a mother, is a sentencing to death of her freedom. However, Charlie does not desire a life of housekeeping and domesticity, she wants to escape the fate of her mother (dinner, then dishes, then bed). No longer able to enjoy the freedom of childhood but not yet a woman who is busy with domestic duties: she feels lost. Before her uncle arrives, Charlie suffers from an overwhelming sense of ennui. The gifting of a ring has one obvious connotation: marriage, but in this instance the “gift” is not actually a welcome surprise, but rather it represents a sort of death sentence. Young Charlie utters these words as her uncle takes out an emerald ring and places it on her finger. If you gave me something, it would spoil things”. “We’re not just an uncle and niece, it’s something else. ![]()
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