What are the motifs in Death in the Woods by Sherwood Anderson?

The "feeder" motif remains in the background of each section in the story, shading into irony as the maddened dogs tear the food pack from the woman's shoulders after she freezes to death in the snow. Near the conclusion of the narrative, Anderson returns explicitly to the feeder theme as the narrator attempts, however fumblingly, to probe the deeper meaning of the woman's life:

The woman who died was destined to feed animal life. Anyway, that is all she ever did. She was feeding animal life before she was born, as a child, as a young woman working on the farm of the German, after she married, when she grew old and when she died. She fed animal life in cows, in chickens, in pigs, in horses, in dogs, in men. . . . On the night when she died she was hurrying homeward, bearing on her body food for animal life.