Yetta hasn't accomplished anything while working at the Triangle Factory

Yetta is hard on herself and doesn't recognize her own accomplishments

Yetta is extremely lazy and has problems at work due to her laziness

Yetta works with others who treat her well and recognize her hard work

High quality equipment, long hours, substantial pay

Spacious, mentally demanding, safe for employees

Supportive management, safe work spaces, legally regulated equipment

Cramped, physically demanding, potentially harmful to employee health

Jennie is not a dancer and does not know how to properly dance

Dancing is something only done by delinquents

Jennie is teasing Yetta about Jacob

Dancing probably isn't allowed in the factory

The cutters are doing something dangerous

She thinks the cutters are rude and ugly

The cutters are often mean to her

She wishes she could have as much fun as they do

Yetta decides that she is going to jump out of the window instead of dying in the fire

Yetta realizes she might die and begins to panic

Yetta realizes that if she does not help people escape, they will all die

Yetta decides to escape the building without helping anyone else

He slapped and punched girls in order to move them towards the exits

He told Yetta that he was on her side

He acted very sweety towards the girls while ushering them out the doors

He left the girls to die without making any attempt to help them

Mr. Bernstein has always hated the workers of the factory

Mr. Bernstein is her archenemy

Her friends always spoke about how mean he is

The factory managers and union organizers did not normally get along

"Yetta and Jacob raced on..."

"So they didn't head for the window..."

"But it was too late to go back now..."

"Those were back by the table..."

The ember made her skin hurt so badly that she couldn't help but be afraid

She hated fire and was afraid of it touching her

She was surprised that an ember landed on her

Since the fabric burned so easily, she was afraid her clothes would catch fire

Dripping and melting

People and candles

Fire and Sabbath

Wax and fire

As a union organizer, Yetta feels responsible for her fellow workers

All of her friends work on the 9th floor

If she cannot warn those on the 9th floor, her boss will be mad at her

Yetta had promised the bookkeeper that she would warn those on the 9th floor

Agreeable

Kind

Selfish

Difficult

Too much negative feedback from Miss Milhouse could make Harriet change her personality

Miss Milhouse is a mean, old lady with no regard for other people

Harriet can only succeed when praised by Jane

Millicent is the only child that Miss Milhouse likes

She immediately snaps and tells Harriet to leave her alone

Although Jane does not have the answers, she does not rudely dismiss the questions

She slowly answers each of her questions as she asks them

She tells Harriet that she should do her own research instead of relying on someone else

She wants the elevator operator to know that she's nicer than her boss

Jane and the elevator operator are both in a secret club that signals each other through winks

Jane was trying to make up for acting rudely towards the elevator operator earlier

Despite working for a rich family, Jane feels she has more in common with the elevator operator

Weary

Ambitious

Energetic

Angry

She dislikes the factory and wishes no one had to work in it

As a union organizer, the conditions she witnessed are the conditions she's working against

She has a crush on one of the workers and can't stand to see them so miserable

She has many friends who work in the factory and identifies closely with the workers

The complaints from the workers made Jane realize how horrible they all look for their age

The workers are the same age as the bosses daughter, but they look far more worn out

She wishes the workers could live much easier lives and wants to work towards their freedom

She doesn't want her bosses daughters to have to see the workers in their exhausted condition

To show her boss that she has the power to get him fired

To make fun of her boss

To make Bella's job harder

To hope that Bella's boss might treat her differently

The tables on either side of the aisle seemed to be closing in on her

The flames kept dividing, devouring stack after stack of shirtwaists

She was penned in, just like a goat or a pig

No better than an animal

To add suspense to the story, thereby making the audience feel a sense of urgency

To make the story far more depressing than it would have otherwise been

So the audience feels a stronger connection to everyone who died

The author wanted it to be obvious that the events of the story are fictional

Jane

Harriet and Millicent

Yetta

She saved herself