Gilbert is more interested in working than attending school. He sees school as a waste of time when he could easily be working and doing something he views as productive. Fancy thinks that she should keep going to school to become something then an in home maid. The father disagrees with Fancy and thinks that she should be more focused on helping around the house instead of going to school. He also does not seem to care that his son…
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still…
