White Fang Freedom and Confinement Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) Shmoop has numbered the chapters continuously, but the book renumbers them in each Part.

Quote #10

Bound down a prisoner, denied even movement by the plaster casts and bandages, White Fang lingered out the weeks. (25.30)

This may be a last bit of symbolism before the very end of the book: White Fang confined by plaster casts after taking three in the chest for his beloved master. London may be helping us to feel his freedom when the bandages come off, a last release after all those years in cages and chains. Or maybe it's the sense that he's still bound, that saving his master's life was a way of showing that he's still caught up in a trap he can't escape.