Summary Of Louisa Please Come Home

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In the story, “Louisa, Please Come Home,” by Shirley Jackson, she is pretty confident about herself. The first important detail is that she said that she wa pretty confident about one thing. In the story, Louisa said that “I was pretty confident about one thing : There must be thousands of 19 year old girls, fair haired, five feet four inches tall, weighing 126 pounds.” This evidence tells that she is confident because she just said that she’ confident of blending in to normal girl. Second, she said that nobody can detect her. In fact, she said “I wouldn't be unique, and nobody would detect me”. This shows that she thought she had succeeded running away, because she exactly said that nobody can detect her. Last, she asked Mrs. Peacock if

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