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This is only a short answer space. Black dresses are a symbol of the burden of life. “One afternoon” when Nomi was standing in her grandma’s sugar-beet field she noticed “two black dresses, the ugly Fortrel kind that many old women” in their town “wore on a daily basis.” Those dresses were “flying around like large crazy birds way up in the sky near the water tower.” She stood and watched as they “flew all the way over “ to her grandma’s yard. The black color of women’s dresses were supposed to symbolize the burden of life, but those two dresses – just like Trudie and Tash – proved that even that grave color could be associated with freedom. Just like those dresses, they managed “to escape and fly away.”
