Bradstreet's Internal Conflict

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Bradstreet is in conflict with herself. She’s mourns her loss of her earthly possessions and feels guilty because she is technically betraying her beliefs. She is causing herself sorrow because she just realized that her things were special to her. Even though she knows that she doesn’t need all those things, she still enjoyed having them. In the beginning she looks up to the sky and asks God why. Why did it have to be her home with her things in it? Why couldn’t it have been someone? Therefore her internal conflict begins. “I,starting up, the light did spy and to my God, my heart did cry, to strengthen me in my distress, and to leave me succorless.” (Bradstreet,29) Bradstreet uses the word “pelf” to describe what she has lost because she

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