“Forth peeped at her, out of the pool, with dark, glistening curls around her head, and an elf-smile in her eyes, the image of a little maid whom Pearl, having no other playmate, invited to take her hand and run a race with her.”
Pearl isn’t a common child. She hasn’t a common look. She hasn’t a common behavior. Differently from the other child she hasn’t any friends. Her mother would love her to play with the other children, but Pearl has an origin too particular, she is considered the symbol of the sin so no one is her friend. She has to play alone with herself, with the projection of her image in the water.
Does she mean playing alone? What is the theme here?
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