Moll Flanders was enjoyable, interesting story, and amusing. The life of a "wicked woman" whose character is good but actions naive, self-indulgent, and frivolous. Daniel Defoe seems to use Moll to mock the cultural system of convicts breeding future convicts, even when the character is "good". It seems to me he was pointing out in London in the early 1700s if you are a woman and do not have family or connections you have no hope of a life other than a "wicked"one, unless you luckily marry. The irony is Moll married 4 times and until the end lost everything when her husbands died. It did seem Defoe painted a shining light on the "new world" where one's success lies more in hard work and industry than in family, connections, and wealth.
