Throughout the story, though only one and a half pages of text, Atwood conveys a strong symbolic message. “Some of the honey runs out onto y

Why is it that even through realizing these faults, people continue to make the same mistakes? The only answer to conjure is, that people out of habit are fearful of changing comfortable routines. Even though this story brings out the living demeanor of over indulgence, greed, and fear of the future, through vivid descriptions, and a persuading tone, people will not be changed unless they want to. It is apparent, that only through life experience do people gain a further understanding of how they will act under a circumstance and it is not until the future becomes the present that they will worry about “opening the bread box.”

Another symbolic aspect is conjured up by a new inquiry. “There’s no doubt you can see the bread, you can even smell it, it smells like yeast, and it looks solid enough, solid as your own arm. But can you trust it? Can you eat it? You don’t want to know, imagine that” (99). In this final thought of the story, the author sums up her feelings on how people live their lives. Evidently, people do not trust nor look toward the future. She clearly states that people are afraid of the future.

our fingers and you lick it off. It takes you about a minute to eat the bread. The bread happens to be brown, but there is also white bread, in the refrigerator, and a heel of rye you got last week, round as a full stomach then, now going moldy” (98). This quote, taken from the first paragraph of “Bread” is a prime example of what it means to be over indulgent. Not only does this describe having the bread,

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