Dorothea,

I will have to disagree with you. This Nellie March lady is not “strong”, she is not written as strong, the author wrote her as if she were a man. She even walks like a man according to how “straight her shoulders are and how her walk is so confident”; yet, the author then states that while she is robust, she has a “lady like” face. So then my dear what is she to be? She does man like labor, she acts man like–yet have you deemed it as strong or “independent” as you would say? If this were so, why not just have her still become lady like, much like Branford was, yet still say that she is not afraid to get her “work hard” if you will? The author could not make her independent without turning her into this man, doing man like things. I shall agree with you on how the said fellow Henry is…perhaps he is the fox after all…I must not have understood. Your intelligence has brought it to light for me on how Henry is the representation of this fox that is a nuisance for the ladies on the farm. He is no good, that much is very true.

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