summer part 2

Ashlynne had said about the first part of the book,

"Entering her prison house with a listless step she took off her hat, hung it on a plaster bust of Minerva, opened the shutters,..."

When I read this line I felt bad for her, that her job was so horrible to her that she compared it to a prison house. The more you read on you find out she only works 2 hours a day! I thought that was funny and really dramatic, but the more I think about it now I realize she was probably referring to the whole town as a prison house for her. She felt trapped in a small undesirable place.

i have to agree with this entirely. As much as she wants to get out, she can't and at the end of the book we see that she doesn't. She has become what she did not want to be. I believe the whole town is a prison that as a woman she can't escape from.