In the beginning of the story we see she is woken by a fire and her first reaction was to say that it’s God’s plan, her saying that showed us how strong her faith is in God, “yea, so it was, and so ‘twas just” pg.29. After she starts to think about it she starts to get upset at the thought that she just lost all her belongings and she’s trying to convince herself that she doesn’t need her personal belongings, but she’s having a hard time doing so, “ my pleasant things in ashes lie, and them behold no more shall I.” pg.27 Bradstreet wants to not have any feeling of sadness that she has lost everything because her religious belief says so, but she’s having internal conflict with herself, thinking she might be sad that she lost everything.
