Yes...she is a symbol of what happens to children born into families where their parents go missing...whose parents drink...she shows what happens when a child's father takes off and the child lives sometimes with mom and sometimes with grandma and sometimes mom is drunk and leaves for a while and sometimes mom is around....She is a symbol of what happens to so many children in out society and have no stablity and are surounded by poverty and who then become a damaged adults who are desparate for stability, security and love and will do anything to get those things.
She is a symbol of what happens when teens are not educated and when they have no hope for a better life through the normal channels so they seek other ways to get what they need.
She is a symbol of how young people desparte for love get pregnant at 16 and get married to loosers and end up single parents before they are 18.
She shows what a desperate uneducated person will do in order to put food on the table...and how after years of going without, no amount of money or food or love or security will ever feel like enough to them.
She is a symbol of how damage that happens to a child can keep them from ever being able to grow up into normal adults.
She is a symbol of what can happen to children of alcholics, and how addiction is often passed on to children, and then on to grandchildren.
She is a symbol of how many children slip through the cracks of our society and how much pain there is in the world.