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How is Lyddie determined?

Lyddie is, for sure, one determined young lady. Right from the opening of the story, the reader gets a chance to witness her steely determination. A bear comes into her family's home, and while everybody else is running for their lives, Lyddie stands up to the bear and gets it to leave.


Later, Lyddie is put to work at Cutler's Tavern in order to pay down some debts. Mrs. Cutler is an awful task master,...

Lyddie is, for sure, one determined young lady. Right from the opening of the story, the reader gets a chance to witness her steely determination. A bear comes into her family's home, and while everybody else is running for their lives, Lyddie stands up to the bear and gets it to leave.


Later, Lyddie is put to work at Cutler's Tavern in order to pay down some debts. Mrs. Cutler is an awful task master, but Lyddie is determined to not disappoint her employer. Lyddie is also determined to earn the money back in order to get her family farm back. It doesn't take long before Triphena notices Lyddie's high work ethic. Triphena even compares Lyddie to a frog that kicked and swam so long in a bucket of milk that it (the milk) turned to butter, which allowed the frog's life to be saved.


Lyddie eventually gets fired from Cutler's Tavern, but she doesn't get down or depressed at all. She keeps moving forward, and she decides to go to Lowell to become a factory girl and earn better money. She learns the trade quickly and becomes one of the factory's top producers. No matter how bad working conditions get, Lyddie continually rises to the challenge. That's how she is determined. Lyddie simply doesn't accept defeat.

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