Gratia's Love Analysis

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A reader may ask, why are “her loves” important to the story that unfolds? Clearly, Pejsa discovered that to understand Gratia, one must understand the driving forces – the people she loved – that influenced and shaped her despite the social mores that defined marriage, love and the role of women during that era. As Gratia had once written to her father, “Sometime I hope to be a wife, but I will never narrow myself down to the four walls of my home, as too many women do” (pg 57). She intended to marry the love of her life, Horace Winchell, but also intended to follow her ambitions to be a career woman. The relationship met with a disastrous end that was nearly the undoing for Gratia. However, she eventually cleared her head and vowed

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