Elizabeth Bowen’s short story titled The Good Girl offers an image contrary to its’ title. The narrator ushers the reader into the lifestyle of a girl, who conforms to a “sin”, or ill-fated event. Morally conflicted, the protagonist Monica is faced with a difficult circumstance, moreover, a shift in her fundamental characteristic. The main character is confronted by internal and external conflicts, which affects blurs her moral judgement. In the chosen passage, the setting gives the reader a realistic view, in addition to vividly illustrating the dark side of Monica’s good judgement. The story reads, “Here she found her mud-flats”, which can be defined as a stretch of dirty or muddy land left uncovered at a low tide. Adding “stark damp
