s because she had been forced into it: “You proposed my husband to me. I took him. I never made a pretense to him or you that I loved him. I knew, and, father you knew, and he knew that I never did ” (Dickens 162). Mr. Gradgrind reacts like a loving father and attempts to comfort her. As Louisa’s cries of unhappiness continue, she falls to the ground. Mr. Gradgrind begins to see his philosophy of facts tumble as he “laid her down there, and saw the pride of his heart and the triumph of his system, lying, and insensibly heap, at his feet ” (Dickens 163). Indeed Mr. Gradgrind now sees the pain which his philosophy of facts has caused, and begins to realize that emotions such as love and compassion do exist - credited to Louisa being able to recognize the need for emotional experiences....
