Cold Comfort Farm

How do you think the situation with Flora and the bull is symbolic of Flora with the lives of the Starkadders?

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Flora can't help notice that the bull, Big Business, is going stir crazy in his barn confinement and his noises are driving her crazy. She convinces Mrs. Beetle to help her lure him into the field. Mrs. Beetle agrees to do so from a second-story window. Despite her fear, Flora manages to get the bull into the field. The name of the bull, "Big Business" is really what Flora sees herself as doing--big business to straighten out the Starkadder family. The fact that the bull might run amok and impregnate a few cows, thus producing "fruit" is symbolic of the new fruit Flora is producing.