r father misinterprets her message, and feels that her response ismerle one of gratitude. Louisa left for home after she had heard her mother was ill. Along her journeyhome, Louisa realized that she had no childhood memories to make her homecominga pleasant experience: As she approached her home now, did any of the bestinfluences of old home descend upon her. The dreams of childhood - its airy fables;its graceful, beautiful humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond ... - whathad she to do with these? (149). Louisa keeps realizing that her fathers school offacts has left her with nothing in place of her childhood : Her remembrances ofhome and childhood were remembrances of the drying up of every spring andfountain in her young heart as it gushed out. The golden waters were not there.(148). This is significant because Louisa has now recognized that her fathersphilosophy of facts facts facts has left her with no emotional experiences whichwould have created childhood dreams. Louisa is now aware that if she were to live alife of happiness she must begin by living her life guided by her heart, and not by herfathers philosophy of facts.After feeling some emotions towards James Harthouse, Louisa confronts herfather on how his corrupted school of facts has left her with no emotionalexperiences to guide her : I curse the hour in which I was born to such adestiny...How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable thingsthat raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul?Where are the sentiments of my heart ? What have you don, O father, what haveyou done ..(161). As the scene progresses, Louisa tells her father that the cause ofher unhappy marriage is because she had been forced into it: You proposed myhusband to me. I took him. I never made a pretense to him or you that I loved him. Iknew, and, father you knew, and he knew that I never did (162). This is significantbecause Mr.Gradgrind re...
