The significance of this disappearing act is explained when Notley paints a picture of a woman's flowers literally disappearing in the scene where a baby is torn from a woman's legs woman. Similar to how the system pressured burning women into a relationship with a ghostly man, the woman in this scene is not only being pressured but is actually being groomed by a group of people to give birth. People are dressing her, "'they are [helping] her,'" 'putting clothes on her...'" and they end by placing a wreath of flowers on her head, announcing her ready to give birth (Notley 53). the woman is prepared and she pulls the baby out of her lap and the wreath disappears, which Alette describes as "'The chaplet'" 'of flowers' "'disappeared'" (Notley 53) According to transcribers of poetic metaphors Lakoff and Turner, in L Janice Kozma's literary use of flower analysis, the inclusion of the wilting or disintegration of flowers typically corresponds to the life cycle of plants (379). Thus the wilting of a flower directly translates into the death of a plant that in this case acts as the death of the woman's discretion and independence, the main things that a girl acquires when she enters her femininity from being subject to the choices of another to making decisions to having to live in based on the choices of another can. be seen inside