Through Mattie’s fight for survival and renewed appreciation for her family, Anderson shows that independence requires hard work and transformation, not mere escape, and that independence is often built on familial bonds, not by severing them.Īt first, Mattie longs to grow up and escape her family’s demands and expectations.
When the epidemic forces her to fend for herself, however, Mattie learns that “freedom” isn’t quite what she had pictured, and she ultimately achieves independence by saving the family business and providing for her mother. Mattie has dreamed of the day she can escape her work in the family coffeehouse, and especially her demanding mother, Lucille Cook.
In Fever 1793, 14-year-old Matilda (“Mattie”) Cook faces the devastation of Philadelphia’s yellow fever epidemic.
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