"At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Libson girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling."
The cats act as a metaphor for the Libson girls. Like the cats the Libson girls make love and fight and cry in attempt to deal with the world filled with emotion. For anyone who truly understands the emotions of the world to the full extent it can be too overwhelming to handle. The range of different emotions that the girls must attempt to understand is shown through the violent imagery of being "flung back and forth" The images of the cats suffering and joy takes place in the dark demonstrating how the world can appear so looming and unbearable. The trees are personified as being able to feel to represent the way all earths creatures play off of each other the people feel the pain of the animals and the Libson girls cary the wait of there pain and emotions around with them giving some of this feeling off to their surroundings. This emotion being passed can also describe the closeness of the girls to each other and explain why they internally suffered so much from the loss of their sister. Even before cecilia was gone she had the ability to give off her emotion to the closest people to her which were her sisters so with Cecilia they endured the weight of the world.
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