The chapter you want to
refer to in order to answer this question is Chapter Sixteen, which describes a walk thatand her
daughter take into the forest, and how they sit next to the babbling brook. It is important to
realise that while the text asserts a comparison betweenand the brook, it also points out that
there are a number of differences between them as to behavior as shown in the following
paragraph:
Pearl resembled the brook, inasmuch as the
current of her life gushed from a wellspring as mysterious, and had flowed through scenes
shadowed as heavily with gloom. But, unlike the little stream, she danced and sparkled, and
prattled airily along her course.
Thus we can see that
the brook and Pearl are compared in the way that they both come from obscure origins and have
seen much "gloom" and darkness in their lives. However, the central difference between
them is that Pearl is not overshadowed by this darkness, and is able to "dance and
sparkle," in contrast to the sombre brook that Pearl finds to be "foolish and
tiresome" because of its sadness.
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