Eliza Wharton Literary Analysis Essay

Eliza Wharton is a very bright and independent woman who cares deeply for a man named Mr. Haly. She expresses her independence in her first letter as she says “[I] feel a gleam of joy at leaving her?”(818). Miss Wharton is a very outgoing and flamboyant woman who seems to write based on her feelings in those moments. Much how someone would write in their diaries to express the emotions that they cannot show others. Miss Wharton feels those urges and so she writes “I must write to you the impulses of my mind; or I must not write at all” (820). Based on this we can see that she may have been a little rebellious while going through her life. Miss Wharton faced a loss of Mr. Haly, someone very dear to her, and tried to cope with the feelings of