There was a lot of foreshadowing and anaphora in the play. The main symbols of the work that struck me were the bird, the quilt and the apron. The bird symbolizes revenge and love. Mrs. Wright loved her little bird as a child, but when John Wright killed the bird, she could think of no more suitable revenge than to kill him. Mrs. Peters' sense of empathy, as she remembers having similar feelings many years ago when a boy killed her kitten. For these women, the pain that comes from the death of a loved one is the resolve of revenge. The quilt symbol represents the easy way out, when Mrs. Hale said “we call it Knot it, Mr. Henderson.” When someone is making a quilt, the "quilt" style is the longest, most detailed way to make a quilt, while the "knot" style is the simple, short, and quickest way to make a quilt. The quilt foreshadows the murder of John Wright and how Mrs. Wright took the easy way out of loneliness and the suffering of emotional abuse by tying a rope around John Wright's neck in a knot. The apron is a symbol for domestic housewives who fill the role that women were expected to play in the kitchen