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