Question

What qualities does sarah orne jewett attribute to rural new england and its people in "a white heron"? do you think readers who hailed from this part of the country when the story was published in 1886 would have appreciated or agreed with jewett's depiction of themselves and their region? why or why not? use examples from the story in support of your response?

Answer 1

Sylvia warms to the 'good looking outsider', and he gives her a pocketknife as a blessing. She is agitated by the way that he executes what he appears to love – the winged animals. Notwithstanding, she has 'lost her first dread of the agreeable fellow.' 

Sylvia settle the following morning to find the heron's whereabouts by climbing a monster pine tree. As she climbs the tree, she progresses toward becoming at one with the flying creatures around her, inclination 'as though she also could go taking off among the mists.'