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A Character Study of Eliza Henry Eliza Henry is a talented, strong-willed woman who will not take charge of her own life. In other words, she is a mass of contradictions. On one hand she yearns to leave her prison of a marriage for a more exciting and fulfilling life. On the other, Eliza realizes the limitations pressed upon women and does the best she can to make her situation better. Eliza realizes her marriage …

…her hopes and dreams stomped upon by a stranger she trusted too easily. She has strong will and determination, but has relegated those skills to gardening and orchard straightening. Henry will never know the woman he married, or everything she has involuntarily given up to stay with him, nor does he care. Eliza will never know what she could have carved out of her life and will always hate herself and her husband for that.