Bliss Paper
...Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?” (143). From this she wants to just live a care free life and not have to worry about the social standard but before she could take it any further her social status kicks back in and she takes back what she said. As the story continues the reader will realize that Bertha is not a poor women and has quite a bit of money that comes from the upper class and that she has never really had to take any real kind of responsibility. This shows when she goes to see her baby. Bertha asked the nurse if Little B was being good, the nurse told her what they had done that day. Even though the baby was Bertha’s she never really had to take care of the child. All Bertha had to do was sit back and let the nurse raise her child. Bertha really shows this when she asks the nurse if she can feed her baby. The nurse did not think it would be a good idea saying “well, M’m, she oughtn't to be changed hands while she’s eating” (145). Bertha just does not realize that taking care of a baby is not all fun and games and these emotions she is feeling towards the baby is all new to her. Because of Bertha’s upper class status, she was never allowed to show any type of emotion like happiness or love or anything of that nature. She was just supposed to sit there and be the proper girl. A big example of this is her husband. When she is at the dinner party she sees another woman eyeballing her husband but she did not really think any thing of it. All she could really think about was that she was attracted to the girl but she just kind of pushed it out of her mind. After that party was over, bertha realized that s...