There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.