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This opening passage, which introduces the character of Bertha Young, also introduces the reader to a fundamental aspect of Bertha’s character: the fact that she feels at odds with the society that she lives in. Bertha feels compelled to act in a certain way because of societal pressures and assumptions about how people should behave, yet her feelings contradict this.
Bertha is a grown woman and yet wants to act in a way that is associated with childhood: running, jumping, playing games, and laughing for no reason. Even Bertha’s surname “Young” suggests that, although she appears to be a thirty-year…