The end to the reign of the STALKER

Finally, reaching the last step of the staircase, Louisa has finally hit the metaphorical bottom and will no longer get back to the top. Harthouse's intentions of seduction and satisfaction have taken their toll. As harthouse drives Louisa to a state of stressed confusion and guilt,  taking more than she can handle she explodes to her father before Sissy and falls helplessly to the ground; breaking the chains of  restraint the factial life she has lived down with her and freeing herself. Finally realizing her dilema that she can only seek affection and love and emotion from a bad and vile being, she influences Sissy to take it upon herself to Visit Mr. Harthouse and confront him. With Harthouse's already " positively agitated" attitude for being ditched and alone, he goes about in  "so much state of hurry" (221) that Dickens forshadow's Harthouse's reign is ending and his loose grip on Louisa. Finally confronting Sissy she defeats Harthouse's efforts to stay interfere with Louisa any longer, concluding her visit with a proclamation of " the only reparation that remains with you, is to leave here immediately and finally" (227). Harthouse being cast out of Coketown and never to return, can be metaphorically related to the Sparsit Staircase and its metaphorical reference to the realization that finally reaching groud floor for the last time, Louisa has finally come to the heart breaking realization that she had to search through bad influences and suppression in order to seek affection and the emotions she needed in order to suffice; than at home from the people whose job it was to teach her that.