Part A: What does the canary likely symbolize?

Part B options:

1. '"There was a man round last year selling canaries cheap--but I don't know as she took one. Maybe she did. She used to sing real pretty herself."’ ( Paragraph 183)
2. ‘“Not having children makes less work," mused Mrs. Hale, after a silence, "but it makes a quiet house--and Wright out to work all day--and no company when he did come in.”’ ( Paragraph 200)
3. ‘“Real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and--fluttery. How--she--did--change."’ ( Paragraph 208)
4. ‘"No, Wright wouldn't like the bird," she said after that--"a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that too."’ ( Paragraph 245)