Esther as a Dying Flower
While volunteering at her local hospital and distributing flowers, Esther notices several withering flowers on her way to the materinity ward and decides to dispose them in a basin while commenting on its similarities to placing dead bodies in a morgue. Esther also later mentions that her reason for discarding the dying flowers was so that the patients who just gave birth wouldn't have to look at pitiful, droopy flowers. This scene immediately jumped out to me when I read it because I saw an interesting parallel betwen Esther's actions in throwing away the flowers, and her own ideology about herself. With Esther believing her condition to be hopeless and incurable, she sees herself as one of the dead flowers that deserves to be thrown away. Much like how Esther thought that the depressing presence of the dead flowers would contaminate the positive aura of the other flowers, she worries that her condition will bring down the people around her. In particular, she worries about h...