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She is excited about the dollhouse, and wants to show it off to the other children, the Kelveys included. Because of her innocence, she has not yet internalized the idea that the Kelveys are undesirable because they are poor.

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It reveals that despite how shunned she is by the community, she is ultimately just as innocent a child as Kezia. Both of them are enchanted and amused by the little lamp. In this way, the lamp symbolizes the childlike “light” of innocence that exists before bigotry hardens their hearts as adults.

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The theme of the story is that bigotry affects us progressively more as we age, but anyone, even the children who still haven’t internalized it, can be a victim of it. Kezia, more immature than her peers, disregards the social norms set in place by the other children and by the adults of the town, which ask that she not speak to the Kelveys. Kezia’s aunt takes out her frustrations about a personal issue on the Kelveys, because of her bigotry, demonstrating how the rudeness the school children have for the poor ripens into hatred over the years.