Emmy is very wickedly tempted by Addison which left an unforgettable portent at Emmy's character. But Emmy wanted to move on and wanted to eradicate the bad dilemma.
" Emmy begins to feel hope for the future and is inspired by the " Universal...tendency to find sweet pleasures somewhere." She is going to live through her humiliation at the hands of Addison.
Emmy starts on a new mission to find a job for her, the job was a compulsion for Emmy.
Emmy meets the master-dairyman, Mr. Richard. He greets her warmly, and Emmy immediately sets to work milking a cow.
" Getting to work makes her feel she is laying a new foundation for her future."
Mr.Richard had a son, William Richard. He was an unorthodox person has doubts about much of his father's religion, thus disqualifying him from religious service. Mr.William Richard learns all the aspects of agriculture. He had a friendly behavior with all the workers. The effects of this friendly environment on him are beneficial. Surrounded by people of an unfamiliar class, he becomes impressed by the realization of their humanity and individuality; he sees them as people of real worth, instead of looking down on them as mere farmworkers. He loses his melancholy and makes a new acquaintance with the world around him.
William Richard does not notice Emmy until a few days after her arrival. When she asserts that:
" I do know that our souls can be made to go outside our bodies when we are alive,"
He remarks to himself, " What a fresh and virginal girl changed from a simple girl to complex woman". These remarks showed a frivolous and malice attitude of William.
on a May evening, Emmy and William talk and Emmy admits to fears about "life in general." When William asks her why she feels this way, Emmy describes a dread of the future, a deep conviction that the world is fierce, cruel, and unconsoling.
William is surprised that this young lady, is expressing the feelings of her age, " the ache of modernism."
Inevitably, Emmy and William see more of each other, and each gradually becomes more interested in the other.
Emmy's newfound optimism is supported by the onset of spring and the new life it returns to the world. She leaves on a thyme-scented May moaning, emblematic of the spring's regenerative powers.
Emmy partakes of its redemptive powers, its rhythms of growth and transfiguration.
" The irresistible, universal, automatic tendency to find sweet pleasure somewhere, which pervades all life, from the meanest to the highest and one woman of twenty, who mentally and sentimentally had not finished growing.
"Growths, change, the will to joy are ever_present forces in Nature and in Emmy."
It was impossible that any event should have left upon her an impression that was not in time capable of transmutation."
( Debate between Mr.Richard and William)
Contrast between Mr.Richard and William Richard to represent the debate over religion versus morality.
William's opinion, which was the progressive, liberal side of that contemporary social debate.
William feels that his father's religion contains things worth preserving and others worth abandoning, and it must, therefore, be flawed. Mr. Richard feels sending William to Cambridge would be a waste if his son did not pursue a religious career.
The relationship between Emmy and William builds very slowly, it takes William some time to notice that Emmy is there at all.
William first notices Emmy when she talks about being able to separate her soul from her body at will. This theological trick arouses William's interest since it echoes on an experiential level a naturalistic alternative to the hidebound religious practice William has set aside in his search for higher truth.
William's first complete thought about her is, " What a fresh and virginal girl that Emmy is!" He interprets her only in terms of the good looks and rustic innocence she outwardly presents.
He presumes that since she seems like an innocent country girl she must be a virgin.
William discovers that Emmy holds some of the same basic convictions of the seriousness and difficulty of life and the doubtful consolations of religion that he does.
Their conversation about Emmy's " indoor fears, " unspecific, existential anxieties about " life in general," makes William intrigued by this woman, who articulates thoughts resembling the advanced ideas of the age.
Emmy and William start to fall in love because they have similar ideas about the world: Although he is intrigued by Emmy, William cannot fully perceive that anything truly serious could have happened to a woman he regards as a charmingly unsophisticated country girl......