The narrator connects her own struggle to these imagined figures. Fantasy blends with reality, showing how women use myth to cope with hardship.

The women’s lives are a performance where they must “awe” others while hiding their own pain. This shows the theme of survival through illusion.

they deliberately work endless. Destruction becomes a way to survive, to avoid stillness, which would force confrontatio nand pain.

“Ghost women” symbolize women who live in the margins ignored, invisible, exhausted, but still carrying beauty (stars). The wave imagery shows instability and struggle, while brushing stars suggests both hope and weariness.