al, and our self-understanding will be vastly improved.
             Throughout Carter's stories, specific attention is often drawn to the meaning of fairy tales themselves, and symbolism is prevalent: white roses for sexual purity, lilies for sex and death; lions tigers and wolves for male sexual aggression. Carter makes it a point in her stories to convey her ideas using nature. Whether it be Carter trying to show male dominance within today's culture, or her attempt at promoting active sexuality for women, Carter uses nature as symbolism. Carter tries to show that even though civilization has chosen to ignore nature, and sort of push it aside, it is still a large part of who we are, and the way we live. Carter's story of Wolf-Alice most clearly depicts societies struggle to understand nature and its decision to ignore it rather than deal with it. The character Wolf-Alice in the story is representative of the lin
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