Its odd to feel that there is a big dude who life it the sky. Hester Prynne, an outcast protagonist like Melinda, life in a cottage at the edge of the woods. Hester's cottage parallels Melinda's closet. The partitions of Melinda's closet are protected in her tree sketches, developing a metaphorical forest in which she hides from reliving her trauma. Intrusion is depicted in the rape's disruption of Melinda's consciousness.