Tuesday, November 12, 2013

why is alicia "afraid of nothing except four-legged fur, and fathers"?

Alicia has to take care of her family, including her father, while trying to go to school. She is afraid of the mice, and the mice are really symbols of her economic level. Mice are low on the food chain and the vermin of society , just as Alicia and her family. Alicia does not want to be stuck in the life she has now, feeling small and powerless.

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