During our lives, there are times when we are at a high point, when our lives are full of happiness and we have nothing to fear . However, we often come to sit down and realize that our lives may not be exactly as we imagine them to be. There are problems and obstacles that we must choose to overcome. With the speed at which society evolves, we miss out on the little things like friends and family that make our lives even more special. Life can be filled with happiness no matter how bad things may seem and we can find true happiness by solving these problems to make our life happy. Bertha Young, the protagonist of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss, is a woman in her thirties, but as her latest name "Young" suggests, she is still maturing. Her acts of maturation can be seen in the passage on page 91: "...she wanted to run instead of walk, do dance steps on and off the sidewalk, play with a hoop, throw something in the air and l 'catch again. , or stand still and laugh at - at nothing - at nothing, quite simply. “The way Bertha lives is because she has lived less than half of her life and to connect Bertha's life to real life, the author uses the symbol of a pear tree. Bertha convinces herself that her life is happy and perfect right now, but what makes her think is “it must have been spring” (p. 96). In spring, pears begin to bloom on the white-flowered pear trees and eventually, the pears begin to hang from the tree. There are many places throughout the story where the reader is meant to compare Bertha to a handstand. As Bertha is dressing for dinner, she is described as being...... middle of paper...... which makes Bertha's life full of happiness throughout the ten pages of this story. Her persistence in being ignorant gave her “a feeling of happiness – absolute happiness!” – as if you had suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun.” (p. 91). Bertha has the ability to live a happy life because she has decided to live for herself and not "by code" or what society describes a happy life as. Bertha has everything in life, a husband, an adorable baby, no money problems, a satisfying house and even a garden. To be like Bertha and live a happy life, we must first learn to forgive, forget and ignore. If we constantly look at the bigger picture, like the final grade we receive in a course, our lives will never be happy. We must learn to get out of our little box of sheltered life, to live a truly happy life..