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The speaker is telling her to behave and stick to her friends, and the young girl does the exact opposite of this in the poem.

Persephone is portrayed to be a bit of a troublemaker, or at least someone who doesn’t particularly enjoy following the rules, as evidenced in the aside in the poem. Persephone herself, along with Hades, is another example of someone who doesn’t quite fit the mold. Any mortal mother would be expected to grieve after losing their child, whereas the Gods of Olympus are disturbed by how strongly Demeter reacts to her daughter’s disappearance. While Persephone’s relationship with Demeter is relatively typical of that of a normal mother and daughter, it doesn’t really fit in with the way Gods normally act towards their children.

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