White Heron Motif

In the short story “A White Heron”, the birds and Sylvia are an important motif to the story. Sylvia is an important motif because she’s the main character and how her actions could affect the white heron. I feel the theme of the story is nature versus mankind because when the stranger arrives it’s to find the white heron bird. He’s looking for the white heron bird so he can kill and preserve it. And he wants help from Sylvia since she knows the woods very well and has seen all the types of animals that live there. But she’s not sure about telling the stranger where the heron bird is at. She is indecisive in what to do since she’s being offered money but she finds beauty in nature and animals so she doesn’t understand why somebody would want