Girl With The Pearl Earring By Griet
We are set to believe that when making life changing decisions it would only affect yourself, but we have become more aware that the decisions we often make are forced to create changes and effect everyone, including your loved ones. In this case, in the story Girl with the Pearl Earring, we distinguish that one life changing decision not only affected the protagonist, Griet, but also her parents and her siblings. Griet, a sixteen-year old girl living with her family in Delft in 1664 was forced to become a maid due to her father having a recent accident in which he is unable to work. This caused Griet to move out of her home and live with her new owner Vermeer, where she’ll live and be their maid. Since the accident and Griet’s employment in
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During the beginning Griet refused to like Pieter. We notice that she is not sure at what she sees in the butcher's son. Pieter is handsome and charming and Griets parents like him because his family owns a butcher shop, but there is something Griet doesn’t like, but his flaws eventually outgrow her. Another thing Griet doesn’t like about Pieter is how his hands are dirty and filthy, which Griet cannot tolerate. You can tell so much about a person job based off their hands. Meeting Pieter was very beneficial for Griet and her family, because she eventually marries him but however before that, she’s still confused. While living with Vermeer and during the story, Vermeer accidently walks in on her changing her headpiece for his portrait, and he finally sees her lushes brown hair. "My hair fell in waves over my shoulders, brown like fields in the autumn. No one ever saw it but me. [...] At last he let me go with his eyes" (196). Even though Vermeer and Griet never had a thing or an affair, the moment she showed her hair to him, it changed everything. They both shares a secret part of each other. He shared the attic, while she finally let him see her hair. Once her hair was set free, Griet felt like another person. Right after their shared moment, Griet went to the hall, which where Pieter was at, and she led him into the alleyway where they had sexual intercourse. Everyone has a thing, object, experience, or feature that means more to them than anyone can understand, and in the story, it was all about the showing her hair that made Griet
During the beginning Griet refused to like Pieter. We notice that she is not sure at what she sees in the butcher's son. Pieter is handsome and charming and Griets parents like him because his family owns a butcher shop, but there is something Griet doesn’t like, but his flaws eventually outgrow her. Another thing Griet doesn’t like about Pieter is how his hands are dirty and filthy, which Griet cannot tolerate. You can tell so much about a person job based off their hands. Meeting Pieter was very beneficial for Griet and her family, because she eventually marries him but however before that, she’s still confused. While living with Vermeer and during the story, Vermeer accidently walks in on her changing her headpiece for his portrait, and he finally sees her lushes brown hair. "My hair fell in waves over my shoulders, brown like fields in the autumn. No one ever saw it but me. [...] At last he let me go with his eyes" (196). Even though Vermeer and Griet never had a thing or an affair, the moment she showed her hair to him, it changed everything. They both shares a secret part of each other. He shared the attic, while she finally let him see her hair. Once her hair was set free, Griet felt like another person. Right after their shared moment, Griet went to the hall, which where Pieter was at, and she led him into the alleyway where they had sexual intercourse. Everyone has a thing, object, experience, or feature that means more to them than anyone can understand, and in the story, it was all about the showing her hair that made Griet