In class, we were assigned an in-class essay about “walls” we saw between Sarah and Handful. One wall really stood out to me, but I didn’t notice it until it was taken down. In the beginning Handful and Sarah address each other by names they don’t especially identify themselves with. Sarah calls Handful “Hetty” because that is the name Mr. Grimke gave her and Handful calls Sarah “Miss Sarah” because it is what society expects from her. The first to push at this wall was Handful when after her lesson with Sarah she tells her “my real name is Handful” (60). Disclosing her “real” name implies that she wanted their relationship to be more of a “real” friendship and less of a master-servant one. Handful also takes the initiative with Sarah’s name. When Sarah finds Handful bathing in her tub, Handful calls her Sarah, “not Miss Sarah, but Sarah. [Sarah] would never again hear [Handful] put Miss before [her] name” (115). I think that in omitting Sarah’s title, Handful tries to put them on the same level because she starts to see them as more of equals. Since Handful is the one to step forward in both of these situations, I think she is showing how she wants equality more than Sarah, even though Sarah claims to want equality.