Analysis of “The Little Governess” “The Little Governess” is a story about a naïve young lady who gets tricked by an old man in a foreign country. The young lady has traveled from England to Germany for a position as a governess for children. However it seems that she is not more than a child herself. She meets an old man on the train who offers to give her a tour of the city …showed first 75 words of 252 total…

…showed last 75 words of 252 total…drawn. I especially liked the two-faced old man. The story has a very clear moral value, which could have been a little more subtle. However it is understandable considering the time it was written in. At the beginning of the 20th century women were starting to become more liberal. And the Women’s movement was born of that age. So, many of the literature of that time was about the consequences of too much liberty.