to be a well rounded person such as Sissy, does not need the factual requirement of the Gradgrind system of education, in fact the totally opposite. In Sissy the chance to let her own imagination wonder when she was just a child traveling with her real father, has led her to be the most individual and most rounded person in Hard Times. Sissy understands and is able to deal with the even most complicated problems that crosses her path. For example, she confronts James Harthouse when she saw that Louisa was in trouble when she was almost seduced by him. Even James Harthouse, the smooth talking calculating individual, could not deal with her very honest and natural way of talking and thinking.However Louisa has managed to keep a little bit of imagination through all the boring factual bombardment from her education. Proof is when she is constantly asking questions to people once in the outside world about life she is constantly curious about things that she was never taught. However because of her lack of exposure to the world outside books and facts she is unable to use it. This is proved when Louisa faces Rachel and Stephen, which was the first time that Louisa encountered anybody from the Coketown dwellings, people who has not been brought up the Gradgrind way of education. Arriving with good intentions, she is not able to convey her services that she wishes to share with them but instead, she sounds rather rude. This is another example of inexperience in life, which the Gradgrind system of education has imposed on her. This is also proved by when in the third chapter first book, the narrator says about Louisa would have been self-willed but for her bringing up.The character Bounderby claims that he made it into this world by himself when his mother abandoned him when he was young, but this is not true as we find later in Hard Times as his mother turns up later in the book to put him to shame. He claims that he was raised in...
