Bradstreet's Relationship With God

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Bradstreet's attitude towards losing her material things is very vague because she doesn’t show that much emotion when she lost her things. Her relationship with God is more important than her material things. Bradstreet thinks there was a reason for her house to burn down and she thinks it was God’s way of telling her she didn’t need those things. “It was His own, it was not mine” (Bradstreet, 29). Bradstreet relationship with god was good. Bradstreet losing her things seemed like it didn’t affect her at all. She was more worried about how God would view her if she felt guilty for missing her things. Bradstreet relationship with God is important to her. She didn’t have very many material things because she thought she didn’t need them.

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