"The Bunner Sisters"

After all of the trials and tribunes the sisters endured throughout the final section of "The Bunner Sister"; succumbing to poverty, mental illness, and ultimately for Evelina, death, I was confused by the ambiguity of the ending. "Ann Eliza went out into the thronged street. The great city, under the fair spring sky, seemed to throb with the stir of innumerable beginnings. She walked on, looking for another shop window with a sign in it."Personally, I took this as a further evolution as Ann Eliza as a new women. Despite having lost everything after giving her full life savings to her husband's ultimately drug-addict husband, selling off the few belonging they held in their shop, and having to pay Evelina's doctor (Because Evelina's mental and physical heath declined after she found out about her husbands addiction, than furthermore when he left her with her friend after she'd just lost the life of their newborn child) who was also a male, Ann Eliza still had the courage to go on with her life. All her life she'd been diminished by a society dominated by male presence (Ramy wanted to marry her though he had little to offer, Ramy took her life savings in marrying her sister, the rest of her money was taken by the male doctor who cared for her sister after a male drove her crazy and furthermore) yet nevertheless she looked not for a man who could provide for her, but rather, for a career so that she could take care of herself. Ann Eliza is truly an embodiment of the "New Woman" because of her drive to succeed independently, without any help financially or otherwise, from a man.