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However, Rowlandson tends to treat her actual objective experiences as secondary to the grandiose "spiritual trek" she feels engaged in. The self-indulgent comparisons between her dilemma and Job's serve only to mask a very real responsibility for the horrible treatment of Native Americans, which ironically, played no small part in creating the very dilemma in which she finds herself captive. In fact, the overwhelming amount of fantasy and self-delusion evidenced by Rowlandson's need to view herself as constantly engaged in some "spiritual tribulation" akin to Job's, only serves to make all the other details of her narrative questionable. Overall, this is less a captivity narrative, than a piece of religious propaganda aimed at justifying the horrible treatment of Native Americans, and reminding the Puritans once again just how special they are in God's
