Begging for Neglection

After allowing all of her feelings to boil up inside of her, Louisa finally breaks down and tells her father the unhappiness she has experienced as a result of the way her parents had raised her. Opposed to how a child would normally plead to his or her parent, Louisa begs her father, "if you had only neglected me, what a much better and much happier creature I should have been this day!" (209) Dicken's uses this reversal of childhood feelings in order to show the unsuccessfulness of a fact-based and creativity-inhibiting life style because he shows the blatant feelings of Louisa to have nothing to do with her father and the pain he had caused her, instead of wanting to be loved and nurtured by her father.