The Woman

Why the term 'woman' is mentioned less than men terms

>> Man has more control - takes more responsibility.
>> Woman symbolise life (reproduction) - there is no more life so there are very little woman.
>> She is not able to kill her son when the time comes so she has little relevance if she can't do it.
>> Not a novel threatened by woman.

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Representation
>> Wealthy as they've afforded to go to a theatre.
>> The man remembers everything about her - her smell, her touch, the clothes she wore. Shows how much he truly cared for her and misses her.
>> Longing for contact with her, to have her in his presence again.

Thematic Functions
>> She was loving and caring.
>> She was well off and could afford the better things in life.

Symbolic Functions
>> The love they shared from the past.

Possible reasons for absence
>> He doesn't want to remember her.