217;t want Frado to get hurt. His answer is, “How am I to help it? Women rule the earth, and all in it” (2641). Everything we’ve read before this, men were rulers of the earth. In this story, Mrs. Bellmont is the dominant one in the house. Like all the other members of this family, except Mrs. Bellmont, Mr. John Bellmont feels sorry for the way Frado is being treated, but he only says it and does nothing to prevent it. They eventually find Frado and James talks to her until she’s happy again.In Chapter X “Perplexities-Another Death”, I find that James is dead. Also, Frado starts going to religious meetings with aunt Abby. She speaks freely to the minister, telling him all that Mrs. Bellmont has done to her. Mrs. Reed, a neighbor, tells Mrs. Bellmont what Frado is doing and the next morning Mrs. Bellmont forbids Frado from going out of the house except when she has errands to do. This means Frado will be around Mrs. Bellmont more often, so Mr. Bellmont advises Frado to try to avoid being kicked and whipped. She takes this advice and before Mrs. Bellmont could strike her, Frado shouts, “Stop! strike me, and I’ll never work a mite more for you” (2644). This surprised Mrs. Bellmont and so she didn’t strike. Frado wanted to escape from Mrs. Bellmont, but she had no place to go, so she decided to wait until she became eighteen.In Chapter XII “The Winding Up of the Matter“, Frado is eighteen years old and she meets and falls in love with a black man named Samuel. Together they have one child. Unfortunately, Samuels job ask that he travel a lot, so he is rarely home with his wife and kid. Then, Frado starts becoming sick and to top it off she finds out Samuel had died of yellow fever in New Orleans. All of these misfortunes was too much for Frado to handle, so when the baby was big enough she had a friend, Mrs. Capon, took care of the baby, while she went ...
