Claim. Just as the tree of life in Eden symbolized perfected Adam, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil standing beside it symbolized perfected Eve — the woman who, by fulfilling her good purpose, would have realized the ideal of creation as Adam’s spouse.
Elaboration. Per 1.1.2. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: “God did not create Adam to be alone; He also created Eve to be Adam’s spouse. Just as there was a tree in the Garden of Eden which symbolized a perfected man, there also should have been a tree which represented a woman who has fully realized the ideal of creation.”
The structural parity is the argument: if there’s a tree-for-Adam, there must be a tree-for-Eve, and the two trees of Genesis 2-3 are exactly two. The tree-of-knowledge fills the Eve-symbol slot.
DP supports this with the Bible’s general use of plant-metaphors for persons: “The Bible refers to Jesus using the metaphors of a vine and a branch. Likewise, to give us a hint about the secret of the human Fall, God provided the symbolism of two trees to represent perfected Adam and Eve.”
This atomic is the structural counterpart to dp-tree-of-life-symbolizes-perfected-adam and the load-bearing premise that lets §1.4 read “fruit of the tree of knowledge” as Eve’s love (see dp-fruit-of-knowledge-symbolizes-eves-consummated-love). The tree-as-person symbolic key, applied consistently, dissolves the literal-fruit reading.
See also. dp-fruit-of-knowledge-symbolizes-eves-consummated-love