.” Louisa believes she has no choice but to face her father Gradgrind and speaks of the childhood she believes was taken away from her, confessing: "Father, you brought me up from the cradle...How could you give me life and take all of it from me? the priceless things that lift him from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the feelings of my heart? What have you done, O father, what have you done to the garden that once should have flourished, in this great desert here!” Also speaking about the marriage she didn't want and the man she really wanted to marry: «When I was irrevocably married... There seemed to be a close affinity between us. I just wondered whether it was worth it for him, who didn't care about anything else. cared so much about me. Taking breath from the honesty displayed by his daughter, Gradgrind realizes that his methods and philosophies based on "facts rather than fantasy" were responsible for Louisa's inability to connect with others. and of his son Tom's indifferent nature. It seems that Dickens is hammering home the idea that imagination is necessary when the world is full of too many facts. Without being able to experience childhood and engage in social situations, children will not be able to communicate correctly with their peers and act appropriately in public.