In a change from her earlier works, however, she illustrates the detrimental effects of commerce on society, contrasting the imaginative connection to the world with a commercial and mercenary one, an attitude she associates with Imlay.
Porén, nun cambio con respecto aos seus traballos anteriores, ilustra os efectos prexudiciais do comercio na sociedade, contrastando a conexión imaxinativa co mundo mercantil e materialista, unha actitude que asocia con Imlay.