... of her status, thus leaving her only with nature and her mother as companions. In chapter fifteen, Pearl "flirted fancifully with her own image in a pool of water, beckoning the phantom forth, and--as it declined venture--seeking a passage for herself into its sphere of impalpable earth and unattainable sky. Soon finding however, that either she or the image was unreal ... ...

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... him are responsible for his tragic end. Thinking of him as "pollution and a lie," his guilt worries his heart, weaken the vital force of life, rendering him a moving and visible phantom with no sense of definite purpose in life (134). He thinks he the "one sinner of the world" he wants to confess, but knowing the consequences, not brave enough to ... ...

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