Throughout the book she is associated with light, gold, innocence, nature, angels, beauty and purity. ... When we first meet her she is with her mother who is an opium addict and we see that she is the only thing that can save her mother from total reliance on the "demon" opium. ... Eliot talks about "angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction". She says "we see no white-winged angels now but the hand may be a little child's". ...

• Word Count: 1413
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School