In Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron,” Jewett utilizes two main characters to present the change from a nature involved society to an urbanized society. Sylvia greatly represents the nature involved society through her various behaviors. These behaviors include Sylvia’s closeness and familiarity with animals and the land as described by her grandmother when she explains that “there ain’t a foot o’ ground [Sylvia] don’t know her way over, and the wild creaturs counts her one o’ themselves” (Jewett 529). Consequently, Sylvia has a bond and a relationship with the animals of the land that an urbanized society would not appreciate. Similarly, another of Sylvia’s behaviors that deem her a fitting representative of the nature involved society is
