Using another chapter as an example, chapter threes excerpt seems to be a little bit different. For one thing, there are two different quotes here, one by Plato and one by Goethe, but i want to focus on goethe. His quote is from his unfinished work Pandora, “Young, and a woman; ‘tis thus she was mine” (36). Goethe unfortunately never finished this work, but this quote still has meaning to the story of Avis in one way or another. Avis already stated that she would never marry, since her mother married her father and never got to act on stage in theater like she wanted, “‘ I married your papa: that is why I never acted in the theatre’” (44). Her mother never got to fulfill her dreams of theater because of marriage, so Avis sees marriage as something that will hinder her ability to complete her dreams. To Avis, dreams and passions are something to be completed and not put off for another day or for another lifestyle. She wants to complete her dreams and no one is going to stop her from doing that, even if she is going against societal norms of that time. You have to develop your own life and your own style, not follow one society has left for you. Life is always changing, so who can say what you’re meant to do but yourself.