Great Regulars: The speaker sets the scene by distinguishing herself

and one or more companions from the women who are talking "about the Russians." The scene has gone on "all morning in the strawberry field."

As the women talk, the speaker and her companions "squatted down between the rows" listening. At one point the listeners hear "the head woman say,/'Bomb them off the map.'"

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Sylvia Plath's Bitter Strawberries

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