Moving is an emotional event that everyone experiences at one time or another in their life. Nevertheless, visualize yourself moving to a new place to live with people you are not familiar with. How frightened are you at this moment? To intensify it all, you are hesitant of how things will work out and soon come to terms that it's not enjoyable task. In Elsa's case in the short story "Hired Girl" by Alice Munro she was not treated like a human being, given any respect, or compassion what so ever. Since Elsa was treated that way, it left her with many barriers to over come such as feeling like she was only a maid, not being able to eat with other people and socialize, and unable to express her intelligence without being put down.

The story starts off with Elsa putting away Mrs. Montjoy's pots and pans...