Ellen Sewell says her younger brother Edmund leaves class for the following reason:
- Edmund Sewell stops attending class because his father says that Transcendentalism is an affliction. He does not want his children attending Thoreau's classes.
- This question refers to the play "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail," by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence. The play is based on the life of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau.
- Ellen Sewell, one of the characters, is an attractive woman, a love interest of Thoreau's.
- Her younger brother, Edmund Sewell, was attending Thoreau's classes on Transcendentalism, but is forced to stop.
- According to Ellen, the reason for that is her father. He does not want his children attending such classes since he thinks Transcendentalism is an affliction.
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