1. Women's Independence in Early Literature
Freeman portrays Louisa's house as immaculate to express the perfection within her house of solitude. ... When Joe walks into Louisa's house, "a little yellow canary that had been asleep in his green cage at the south window woke up and fluttered wildly, beating his little yellow wings against the wires. ... Joe's clumsiness in Louisa's house illustrates that he does not belong there. ... Freeman writes, "It was now fourteen years since, in a flood of youthful spirits, he had inflicted that memorable bite, and with the exception of short excursions, always at the ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate