Exploratory analysis of the woman,

5,8,2,1,7,4,3,6.

 Five
'The woman has a powerful and ambiguous symbolic function in the novel: she represents both the giving of life and the temptation of death' 
-symbol of hope.
-She kills herself - symbolicof hope for the young boy? 'just take me with you, please'
                                                     He wants to die so he can be with his mother and father. -Happiness 
                                                                                                                                           -Peace.
 Could she be seen as selfish for killing herself?
-She killed herself slowly, painfully. 
-Maybe to punish herself for leaving her son and husband alone.
                    -She had the option to take the bullet but she chose to let them have the bullets to save themselves eventually 

'Wake himself from just such siren worlds'
-symbolis that the woman can control him even in death.

'Cradling her belly in one hand'
- symbolises hope, she is giving life.
- woman represent a light at the end of the tunnle?
Could be misread as selfishnes, she is bringing a new life into a world that is over.