Use of the word "unfurl" [closed]
I have a question about the meaning of the sentence below, especially the use of the words "a sequence" and "unfurled" in it. *Please note that the author who wrote this sentence came back to her home town after a long time since she moved to another town.
The pavement changed where a sign marked the end of city limits and a sequence I'd seen a thousand times unfurled.
Can someone please explain what it means by "a sequence I'd seen a thousand times unfurled" in this context ?
How I understand the word "sequence" is that it means a series of events that happen in an order. Having said that the author is seeing the landscape she had been familiar with as she drives up the street, I had the impression that she is recalling her memories of the when she used to see the same landscape a long time ago (please correct me if I am taking it incorrectly).
Moreover, I cannot comprehend how the word "unfurled" is being used here. As far as I understand what "unfurl" means is to "make or become spread out from a rolled or folded state, especially in order to be open to the wind". But I am having trouble understanding why "unfurled" with such meaning is relevant to this sentence.
Looks like it's this story you're quoting from:
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
And the paragraph after that sentence explains the 'sequence':
bends (in the road) straightaways the winding stretch of guardrail and the clearing.. Up and up, the pines taking over and down the gravel path until the lush mass broke open to our home
And I think she's saying that in town, the views are public basically.
But the road past that sign, between town and her home, is like a private memory lane that she's traveling down: in her mind as much as in physical reality.
Since she has been out-of-town, this view that's engraved in her memory has been folder away like clothing in a suitcase. And as she travels that road to home, it's opening up the suitcase and unpacking all the sights and connections and memories of her years growing up.