... ", and has "almost the enthusiasm of an artist over the mere order and cleanliness of her solitary home" (658). Freeman portrays Louisa's house as immaculate to express the perfection within her house of solitude. Certain amount of irony exists in the fact that Louisa's interests are more domestic in nature. Freeman seems to be poking fun at the stereotype of domesticity by showing that Louisa does ... chained because he had bitten a neighbor. 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...

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