In reading the story, "Like a Winding Sheet" by Ann Petry, we see that the character of Johnson feels imprisoned. The imprisonment that he feels comes from different areas, his job, his perceptions, and his own helplessness in the face of control that he feels from women.
His job is a source of imprisonment because he is at the mercy of the shift change, the pain in his own body and he feels that if he were able to make changes in the way his job was done he wouldn't feel the pain. As it is, there is a sense of helplessness because he is not free to make the changes.
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