Conversation had such an importance placed on it during Madeline Scudery’s time. It was an art that got her into a different society where she was able to be successful. The idea of a conversation was to better everyone in the conversation. It was to be agreeable but also provocative enough to be interesting to the group. The beginning of her work is just about having to listen to other women speak of trivial things. It is complaints of listening to and trying to participate in conversations where nothing of any significance is spoken. This was interesting to me because whenever I spend time with my mom and her friends they endlessly talk about something their children did and what activities they’re participating in and just continuous amounts of dull thoughtless comments on each other’s lives.  This is what Scudery is speaking about in the beginning of her writing. Because of this it would make sense that a conversation, a conversation of worth, should be provocative and should bring new understandings of topics to all involved in the conversation. If conversation is an art it should teach people something and should force them to think and carefully articulate their opinion on a topic not simply blurt out a random fact about their day. A conversation doesn’t have such high standards today, but it is still one of the most important parts of our days and conversations lead to better understandings of each other and shows what we have to learn from another.