B highlights the difficulties the reader faces in attempting to define it objectively. Pamela's descriptions of her master oscillate from reverence to revolt and back again throughout the novel. Pamela's initial description of Mr. B depicts an “angel,” “a good gentleman, and a “gracious benefactor” (53). Within a few letters, however, Pamela describes him as a “wicked, wicked man” for whom she has no patience (93). Ultimately, Pamela's emotions swing favorably when she finally admits that she loves Mr. B. and agrees to marry him. The variations in Pamela's descriptions of Mr. B arise from a personal experience or encounter. The reader is never offered an objective account or letter that perhaps depicts the same scene but from Mr. B's point of view. This forces the reader to resort to much inference and conjecture to try to understand Mr. B's character. ., but since Pamela is the character who asks for sympathy and understanding from the reader of her letters, an objective opinion of Mr. B. is almost impossible to establish. Since the reader cannot establish an unbiased opinion because he is lending sympathy to Pamela, just as she asked in her letters, then the reader must stop to ask himself whether he is playing an observer role or whether the reader is now a character in the story expressing a judgment based on the one-sided opinion that the epistles have