"My Lord, what a dismal response. Was the answer such an ingrained, obvious part of the way we lived that no one stopped to ponder the question itself? If no one around me even understood the question, then it couldn't be answered. And if it couldn't be answered, I was doomed to the distaff life of womanly things. I was depressed right into the ground." (p. 218)
Please interpret what you think Callie was thinking at this time, using evidence from the text to support your thinking.
I think that Callie is saying that as she grows up she will have to get more independent, and less free to do things like research naturalism. One example from the text is when she says, " I was doomed to the distaff life of womanly things."
ReplyDeleteI think that Callie was saying that no matter what she will have to grow up out her naturalist ways and become a lady. And she does 'not' like the idea of that.
ReplyDeleteI agree with shaina in the fact that Callie does nit like the idea of having to stop her studies just to do what all the women did back the.
ReplyDeleteI think that Calpurnia was saying that no matter how much she wants to be a naturalist, she will never be able to because she will have no time and have to take care of her family.
ReplyDeleteI think that Calpurnia was thinking that she was going to have to be living to working in the house and other womanly things rather than searching for bugs.
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