Clarissa Freedom and Confinement Quotes

If there was ever any doubt that Clarissa considers her house a prison—voila. But she'd rather be in prison than hang out with Solmes—that's an even worse form of confinement.

Nature provides Clarissa with her only refuge from her house arrest. That, and chickens. (Brain Snack: in the eighteenth century, and for rural women throughout the nineteenth century, "egg money," or the money that women earned from selling eggs, was often the only money that they got to keep for themselves. Relevant? We think so.)

This is no ordinary jail-break. Nope, it's out of the frying pan and into the fire. Do you think that, in the end, Clarissa is glad she left with Lovelace, or would she have made a different choice if she were able to do it all over again?