Given the complexity of this selection, we have chosen to present an excerpt that illustrates prevalent themes in Bradley’s narrative that are complicated by the context under which it was written. With this in mind, this section of the anthology has been designed to draw attention to problematic, challenging, and illustrative rhetoric that Bradley employs in her literature. We do this by adding several annotations that not only highlight but also explore the ramifications of this very rhetoric while offering checkpoint tags that ground the work in more general themes of the anthology. It is our hope that the reader will be able to extend their consideration of the text to thoughtfully complicate the relationship between the author and its audience both past and present while appreciating how this dynamism is worth considering more broadly throughout all literature.