In my opinion, what the author is showing here is that
Miss Martha Meacham is giving up her hopes for romance. This is shown by her taking off
her fancy clothes (the blue dotted silk waist, which means a blouse or shirt) and
putting back on her plain clothes for working.
To me, this
is mainly a story about a woman who lets her desire for romance push her into believing
that this man needed her help. She built up this picture in her head of what he was and
why he needed the stale bread. In doing so, she created a fantasy world where he was
going to become her man.
At the end of the story, she has
found out how wrong she was and she is going back to her previous life. This return to
her normal state is symbolized by the change of clothing.
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