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The Lumber Room
In the story, the lumber room symbolizes wildness and imagination, and the aunt’s decision to bar the children from this room represents her affinity for propriety and orderliness. In upper-class English homes, the lumber room…
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The Tapestry
The image on the tapestry Nicholas discovers in the lumber room becomes a symbol for the story’s conflict between wildness and propriety, suggesting that Nicholas’s wildness will triumph over the aunt’s attempts to subdue…
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