The Rebecca Nurse In The Crucible

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If I were taking advice from someone, I would listen to the person with the most experience and knowledge on the subject. In Arthur MIller's "The Crucible" Rebecca Nurse seems the most fit to hold that role. Since she is a peacemaker, wise and valued she is very important in the community. Rebecca is wise to child care. In the the story she states, "I have eleven children and I am twenty - six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief."(Pg. 151, Ln. 522) Rebecca has enough knowledge in my opinion, to know if the girls are pretending or just playing around. In many ways, Rebecca is also a peacemaker. In the midst of