Lily in the Workplace

Although Lily thinks that her special deftness of touch will make her an adept millener, her preconceptions are wrong. After two months of work, "she was still being rebuked for her inability to sew spangles on a hat-frame" (301). Not only was she an unproductive worker, she was humiliated when she discovered that "after two months of drugery she still betrayed her lack of early training. Lily's lack of ability to ever become a great millener is similar to my desire to be a great golfer. Although my grandfather taught me the basics of gold when I was an adolescent, Today my golf game is miserable. I am unsuitable to play on the actual course and am still confined to the driving range after years of practice. Like Lily, I am losing hope of ever being a competitive golfer. Although I will never quit trying to learn golf, I have shifted my priorities away from being a great golfer to keeping myseld in some sort of physical condition and not letting my body deteriorate completely.