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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Adrienne Rich. 1. Aunt Jennifer's tigers are pictures that she is sewing into a tapestry. The tapestry could be one of those quilts that you can hang on the wall, or curtains. 2. The details that are associated with her hands are being terrified, but lying still, they flutter through the wool and they are weighed down with the weight of Uncle's wedding band. They will also be, upon her death, will be …

…this could be the start of something if someone, even perhaps herself, could have taken the initiative. This, to me, could also mean what she may have wished she had done this in her lifetime and seeing other women do, and this also occured to me that maybe this could be some of the ideals that she may have instilled in her daughters or wished she have given to her daughters, if she had any.