The Influence Of Cal/Lie

like herself. "Yet I do fear thy nature/It is too full o' the milk of

her life demonstrates her fear and in the end what fear can do to a

She has a detached nature and comes off as being an outsider observing them from above, and interpreting their movements like a scientist.

herself
(unsure
of
whether
or
not
to
break
frewith
a
desire
to
become
her
own
person)
andthat
I
think
we
can
see
reflected
in

As she grows she discovers more of what she is capable of. Now she realizes that even though she is going crazy, she is still alive. Above all, she does not want to hide anymore and is not afraid to come out of her shell of guilt. “I don’t want to hang out in my hidey-hole anymore…. I don’t feel like hiding anymore” (p.191-192). She comments about not wanting to go back to her closet because she is not afraid of what might happen to her. In the same way she says that she, in no matter what condition, is still alive and breathing. “I have survived… Confused, screwed up but still here” (p.188). She is happy that she survived and that it does not matter if she is frustrated, she still has to stay for the ones who love her. In order which she has to take care of the old Melinda she was and let go of the Melinda she was after the party. After this realization she understood that she is not perfect but she can grow to love those

was caused by a fear of women. She agrees that the belief in the Puritian culture, that

Although he is not the focal point of this chapter, Cal’s development is an important undertone to pick up on so as to recognize its contribution to the novel’s overarching

One of her many traits that would make a good Holistic

Though she is in good health, she couldn’t escape her age, and inevitable changes that come with it. She couldn’t escape the fact that he life was passing and there was no going back to change anything. She would no longer be able to have children, and would not be able to re–do her life and have children. She would eventually have to accept her life as it is now, to accept things that have passed, and let them go or keep her pain and sink into an abyss.

It was easier to be afraid, in a way, when she really had no clue about what was really going on in her

disallow of any creative stimulation, the woman is driven to creating a world within the walls of

This is shown by the way he talks to her and how he acts around her.

As the girl continues on to grow up she is continually facing challenges with her confidence and thus affecting her emotionally and physically. For instance, one of the line states that “ she went to

He said to himself that she was too light and childish, too uncultivated and unreasoning, too provincial, to have reflected upon the ostracism or even to have perceived it. Then at other moments he believed that she carried about in her elegant and irresponsible organism a defiant, passionate, perfectly observant consciousness of the impression she produced. (43)

though he cares for her a lot as even though she is quite grown up she