to remind people of the suffering American Indians endured on the Trail of Tears
The symbolism of stitching is that stitches hold things together, and Mrs. Wright's situation was falling apart. This becomes clear when the women look at the quilt that Mrs. Wright was working on most recently, and see that there had been neat, even stitching on the rest of the quilt, but the latest stitching had been a total mess.
Well. It could mean "Boreas,Eurus,Notos, and Zephyrus."
It also means to breathe for example "I waited a while.. jeez- I had gotten wind back." Another example is.. "The fall that, the rock had cause me nearly winded me." The last example is "The birds couldn't have seen us or winded us."
The correct answer is: The narrator has great admiration for the nun.
Chaucer admires the character of the Nun because she is a woman who is not what she is expected to be. Instead of caring about charity and prayer, she acts like a lady. The nun shows the others the person she desires to be instead of showing her reality. She spends her days concerned about her manners and appearance.
