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Bradstreet's Beliefs
In Bradstreet’s her attitude toward losing her material things and focus on her belief in God had mixed emotions.On one hand the women who lost her house and everything in it was very sad but at the same time wanted to let go of thoughts feelings because she wasn't suppose to be attached to those things and was suppose to be learning more about god.She quote”When the ruin oft I past my sorrowing eyes”meaning she was sad,but she couldn't be sad because of her religion.

Another thing about the women is that she had very few things to morn about because her religion only wants her to have the basic needs for life.Also she was wanting to have certain things take pace like quote”getting married there.”Lastly she got over her house being burnt
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