White Quail" identifies and derives her strength from Mother Nature through her garden. The garden is a part of Mary and she makes this very clear when she tells her husband "Well, you see I've thought about it so long that it's part of me. If anything should be changed it would be like part of me being torn out" (24). Both women identify with and derive strength from things that Mother Nature offers.
             The frustration that I speak of is derived from the women being in failed marriages. To further clarify this I mean marriages that lack communication, praise and love. The similarity of both women in a failed marria
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