To be frank, I wasn’t really interested in the almshouse that we saw when we were there. I just never really cared for old furniture. However, it wasn’t until I got home and thought about it and re examined the almshouse with north and south that I gained a bit more of an appreciation  for it. I instantly thought of Betty and her father and thought to myself “they most likely own a chair that they had to cut the legs off slowly to save money, just like the chair in the almshouse.”  Or something along those lines. Then I thought back to the protest, and the call for social justice in terms of the workers rights being violated. The living conditions really showed the standard of living at the time was so dreadful for the poor I got a bit more insight on the style of living in North and South.

Also, I was curious about one of the paintings in the the lecture room that we saw. I noticed that one of the paintings was of a woman who was sitting a bit solem and grey surrounded by bright colors and laughing children and other bright things, but she was hunched over and looked withdrawn. I wondered to myself as I was reviewing my pictures if this painting was of Woolf. Because I beilive it was Katy who said that Woolfs sister was the artist