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Red symbolizes her passion. Her passion was unleashed, “a force that she could transmit to others”, and it made her happy to think of sharing this to others. She was getting closer to achieving her freedom, to fetching the coat, because “it was part of her”. In the end, the woman “left the city behind her” and “with a howl of pleasure and joy, plunged into the depths of the forest”, where she knows she belongs, symbolically as a ‘red fox’, her true self. She was “free at last” to be herself.
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