I think it’s basically this: if you’ve ever watched Life of Pi, you know that Pi couldn’t handle the trauma of what actually happened, especially the cannibalism, so he retells the events by representing the people involved as animals. I think this story is trying to depict something similar. Because of her trauma, she turns the people around her into characters in this world, while the characters are actually representations of the real people and events she experienced.
I think it’s basically this: if you’ve ever watched Life of Pi, you know that Pi couldn’t handle the trauma of what actually happened, especially the cannibalism, so he retells the events by representing the people involved as animals. I think this story is trying to depict something similar. Because of her trauma, she turns the people around her into characters in this world, while the characters are actually representations of the real people and events she experienced.