Aunt Sarah and Aunt Elizabeth patrol at night with "electric cattle prods slung on thongs from their leather belts" What does this detail reveal about the narrator and the situation she is in?

The fact that the women are forced to sleep in a gym and are kept complacent by weaponized women speaks to the utter lack of control and freedom the narrrator holds over her own life. The narrator is, in essence, a prisoner, seen as nothing more than an animal.