The Bean Trees

what is lou ann referring to in the "like a bug or a mouse...or just go back to sleep and let it go" quote? why is it significant?

chapter four

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This refers to Angel coming in the house. His presence in a house full of women doing womanly independent things was inconsequential. Angel had no power there and he was reduced to "bug or a mouse".