Abstract: In the short fiction of The Cabin in the Garden by Willa Cather,the cabin symbolizes women s desire to be free from the control of the patriarchal society.The vivid description of the nature in the fiction properly matches with the heroines psychological sufferings and struggles between her dream and harsh reality.Being an "others" of human beings,the nature reveals helplessness and self-depression of the heroine who has to give up her dream as the marginal person of the society.Therefore,Cather s ecofemini...