The "unblinking eyes" are fixated on her. They see her
deteriorate and do nothing about it. They can read her soul and basically are witnessing
all that she is going through. The eyes represent her status: A person to be seen and
not heard. Someone who is put in a room, deprived of all the things that she needs to
make a good recovery but whose condition is so misunderstood by a man-dominated society
that all she can do is be literally "caged" by staying in a room all day, deprived of
communication.
Therefore the symbolic significance of the
author seeing unblinking eyes lies in the fact that she feels like some form of fish
inside a tank, or like a caged bird with he eyes of the world on her, but doing nothing
to help her condition
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