What is an example of symbolism in the novel Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood?

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Grace knows that as a woman she could be the author of the original sin. Simon apple to Grace starts the symbolism of the garden of eden myth.

The chapters of the novel take their names from quilt patterns, these structure and parallel the process of reading the novel: The reader must piece together the versions of Grace story and public interpretations from newspapers, popular ballads, and people.

There are other references to albums, patchwork or scrap-booking, strengthening the idea of the book as an album: The Governor's wife collects newspaper cuttings of criminals, Lydia collects straps of cloth or ribbons,

Grace herself is a symbol of the Victorian definition of woman. The search for Grace's true identity is symbolically the search that all women living in a suppressed environment are involved in.

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