She Unnames Them Analysis

The book “She Unnames Them” by Ursula K. Le Guin is a story about Eve in the garden of Eden and her attempts to unname all the creatures in the garden. Eve discusses the animal’s reactions to the names they were previously given and how they behave when she unnames them.The story discusses the various animals’ reactions to their unnaming and how they depart from the labels given to them. “These verbally talented individuals insisted that their names were important to them, and flatly refused to part them. But as soon as they understood that the issue was precisely one of individual choice, and that anybody who wanted to be called Rover, or Froufrou , or Polly, or even Birdie in the personal sense, was perfectly free to do so, not one of them had the least objection to parting with the lowercase (or. As regards German creatures, uppercase) generic appellations “poodle”, “parrot”, “dog”, or “bird”, and all the Linnaean qualifiers that had trailed along behind them for two hundred years like tin cans tied
Eve’s efforts to unname the animals appears to be an effort to release herself from the life, labels that hold her back and with Adam.The element with Eve leaving Adam shows that Eve has chosen her independence from Adam and his indifference to her. “In fact, I had only just realized how hard it would have been to explain myself. I could not chatter away as I used to do, taking it all for granted”(2). I felt this because she was not being respected by Adam and so she left which shows how strong she is and how she does not need a man. In this world today women are being more independent, which has most likely influenced this story. The beginning of this story is confusing because it has a very complex vocabulary. Many parts I had to re-read because I did not know the meaning of the word. I was a bit confused by the animals reactions and the meaning of their