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** spoiler alert ** Incredible book, I see themes of female solidarity under the patriarchy, the cabinets could serve as metaphor for the house, in the beginning the young protagonist could be seen as challenging the patriarchy while not understanding the complacency of her older cell mates, but then you see the importance of female solidarity when the woman unite to figure out the time. It also hints at how detrimental the patriarchy is to men, the dead soldiers in the bus is a strong example “they’d been custodians of the absurd, carrying out orders whose purpose they were unaware of�� (pg. 159). There lack of satisfaction after escaping the bunker is similar to the loss that early feminist movements encountered once they were allowed to participate in the capitalist system, freedom is not achieved by joining in on the oppressive system but only by dismantling it all. Maybe I’m reading too much into it lol