Little Annie’s Ramble by Nathaniel Hawthorne was literally a ramble about his love for this child named Annie. He seemed to think lowly of everything but Annie. In his eyes, Annie, this “child”, was just a pure thing in which he missed in his life. I feel that that is so because at the very end, he said, “As the pure breath of children revives the life of aged men, so is our moral nature revived by their free and simple thoughts…” This basically means that Annie was the thing that could revive his life and allow him to feel more at peace and free; to experience his boyhood again. Throughout the story, he kept going on and on about how pure and beautiful Annie was. She was beautiful because he thought she didn’t know anything negative about the world and that she wasn’t tainted by the evil and the bad. He wished her to disregard him if he started moralizing. This is because he believed she didn’t know right from wrong. Around the middle of the story as well, he said she would rather pay attention to the dolls rather than to the queen, king or knight. In his point of view, she was a child that knew nothing and couldn’t understand anything but her desires for the pretty things and toys such as dolls. He liked her better that way because him, as an adult, knew too much and all the dark things he knew as well caused him to feel that life was not that great and that he would be better off like Annie, who didn’t know much. It is as the saying goes, “Ignorance is bliss.” In this case, Annie is the ignorant one in the narrator’s point of view and the narrator is the one that wishes to be ignorant, to have the bliss that he feels the child has. He misses that ignorance and that bliss.