ime, at the age of forty-eight, when she could no longer earn a living having sex for money. The first time she steals something she feels guilty. She starts her career by stealing a watch from a small child, and she even contemplated killing him. After which, she starts running and eventually she stops and questions what she has done. She doesn't like where she has gone in her moral standards, but she soon overcomes her guilty feelings when she realizes that thievery might be a lucrative profession. From that time, until she is thrown in jail, she uses her innate intelligence to abduct an utter cornucopia of items. She steals mostly watches, though. These watches represent Moll's yearning for the past. In thepast she made an honest living, and she wants to go back to that time. Near the end of the story Moll Flanders feels a need to return to her past. She returns to Colchester, but this is not enough for her. She feels, deep inside, that she must go back to the place where she was born. She feels that she must go back to Newgate prison. She thus continues her life as a criminal and, eventually, she gets caught. While in prison she is visited by a priest. The priest convinces her to repent for her life of sins, and she does. This is a big change in her life. Some might say it was the point in the story where Moll Flanders, finally, reaches the middle-class chaste in her life. Before she repents for her life of sins she doesn't care if she lives or dies. She even sings, on page 351, "If I swing by the String, I shall hear the Bell ring. And then there's an end...". After she makes amends, however, she feels a need to live. The priest arranges for her to get a transfer to America. With her, on the way there, is her husband, Jemmy. With Jemmy, Moll goes to America and lives a prosperous life. Moll Flanders is referred to, often, as a rogue novel. It involves a woman's expe...
