Through the use of dialogue, the author conveys that animals are viewed as commodities to exploit for the happiness and survival of humans. During the conversation where Mrs. Tilley offers the hunter a place to sleep, she treats her geese as material to give feathers same as the fruits that gave her the husks. When she says, “I raised them all myself” (Jewett 7) she does not distinguish what gave her the feathers from what gave her the husks and puts them all in the same basket of profitable things. Later in the conversation, the hunter’s interest in birds is of a possessive nature which…