The Wife Of Wrath Chapter 4 Analysis

Chapter 4 Chains- In the beginning of this chapter Robert takes Isabel and Ruth to Miss Mary’s to collect their shoes and blankets. The girls have to leave everything of theirs behind. They are even expected to leave Ruth’s doll behind and anything that belonged to their parents. Isabel decides to break this rule and takes a pocket full of Momma’s seeds from the jar. Isabel and Ruth are brought to Newport where they are being auctioned off. The owner’s wife Jenny is kind to the girls. Jenny even feeds the girls. Jenny told the girls that she and the girl’s mom were really close friends. Isabel and Ruth ask Jenny if she could buy them but she says no. A lady named Elihu and a man named Anne Lockton bought the sisters. At the end
of the chapter Jenny stops the offer from Elihu and Anne and she decides to buy the girls. Jenny buys the girls and brings then to their new home.