Three Dreams in a Desert - Metaphors

While reading Three Dreams in a Desert there were several metaphors present. Though it was a short read, there was so much depth to it that I really had to dig out the meaning, or metaphors, that the author was trying to convey. The most significant one to me was in the first dream, the woman's posture. The way that she was placed, stretched out as far as she could with her head leaning out as far as possible showed that she had reached out with all her ability and that was as far as she was going to get. Also taking into account the posture of male in comparison to her, he was able to stand and move more freely. I think this is significant because it is portraying the roles of men and woman at this time in the sense that men had the upper hand against woman and they were able to do as they pleased while the woman had restraints upon her.

Another metaphor that stood out to me was in the second dream, relating to the bugs on the river. I think that this was intended to show that it takes a couple people to be the first ones to start something. Meaning that there has to be first pioneers to fail in order to make it work. In this case it was crossing the river, the first ones got taken away by the water but eventually a "bridge" was formed for the rest to cross. I think this metaphor is significant in its representation of how women slowly earned their rights; it took a couple pioneers of this movement to fail and endure hardships but eventually a bridge for women's rights was eventually gained.