Leota spoke well about Mrs. Pike at first. However; all of that changed when Mrs. Pike recognized the petrified man. Mrs. Pike has used her perception or insight to see through the disguise of the Petrified Man' she and Leota had seen at a travelling freak show. The man is a fugitive r apist from California, with a price of five hundred dollars on his head, and Mrs Pike hasrecognized his photograph in a crime magazine owned by Leota. Mrs. Pike wins the reward and Leota is jealous. Leota was disappointed and upset that she did not find the wanted ad before Mrs. Pike (Lesson-"The Petrified Man"). The fact that Leota is jealous and gets angry shows howpetty she it because of not figuring out who the petrified man was and thus not receiving the reward. This was her own fault.
The belief that the romantics held about humanity is that b) the humanity is at its best in nature.
They believed we should all return to nature and our previous behavior, because nature is inspiration, and it will help us regain our lost good qualities.
