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Honor As Viewed In Mary Wilkins Freeman’s A New England Nun Honor as Viewed in Mary Wilkins Freeman’s A New England Nun Webster’s dictionary defines honor as “a keen sense of ethical conduct; one’s word given as guarantee of performance”. The characters in Mary Wilkins Freeman’s A New England Nun are each a vivid depiction of this definition. Beginning with Louisa Ellis, whom is a prim and proper woman engaged to a man she no longer knows and does not love, but none the less will marry because she has committed to doing so. Leading next to Joe Dagget, the mannerly fiancé of Louisa’s whom has fallen in love with another woman, but will go through with the marriage to Louisa because not doing so would make him less of an honorable man. And ending with Lily Dyer, the young woman who captured Joe Dagget’s heart, but would not dream of letting him back out of his engagement to Louisa because “Honor’s honor, an’ right’s right. I’d never think anything of any man that went against ‘em for me or any other girl…” (1619). Freeman’s story gives the reader a glance at how practicing honor and integrity can destroy the lives of those whom live a life of honor, just as nun, new, england, joe, louisa, lily, honor, man, love, life, dagget, woman, marry, because, another, less, word, whom, never, freeman’s, ellis, dyer, true, story, someone, one, make, lost, live, integrity, happiness, giving, characters, back, wilkins, upon