Describe symbolism in Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes

In Part II, Section III, the massive gold ornaments Teodula wears are essential to her identity. They were put on her for her wedding day and she has never removed them. She wore them on her wedding night, and decorated her newborn children with them. Even so the jewelry doesn't belong to her, it is merely a symbol of her married life and of her place in the social order; it belongs not to her but to the order of things.