Essay question: How is the girl presented as too immature for a relationship in ‘The Farmers Bride’?

In ‘The Farmers Bride’ by Charlotte Mew she talks about a young girl who has become a bride too early. In this essay, I will talk about how the young girl is too immature to be in a relationship with the Farmer who is clearly a lot older than him.

Charlotte Mew presents the young girl in the ‘The Farmers Bride’ as too immature. She is too immature because one she has not got to an age were she starts to become mature, also the young girl portrays herself as valnerable and fearful of her husband. Charlotte Mew uses the words ‘run away’ in her poem. She uses this verb to emphasis the readers understanding of the young girls immaturity, as she has ‘run away’ from her responsibilities as a bride, rather than confronting her husband of the feeling she has that she is too young to be his bride. The fact that Charlotte Mew uses a verb to help us further understand the situation is very spontaneous because the action ‘run away’ shows us that the young girl is cowering away from her responsiblities.

The young girl in ‘The Farmers Bride’ is also to immature for a relationship because now that she has been married, to seal the deal, she had to have sex with the farmer which has mentally affected her. These actions portray her as immature because any women who has taken the responsibilities of marriage and has had their verginity taken away has dealt with the situation very well, whereas, she has been effected very deeply showing that she is immature because she cannot handle the responsibilities of an adult.