The correct answer is: Strict and unfair.
In paragraph 3 of "A women who went to Alaska," the narrator describes the Canadian Dominion governmen as "oppressive" because it imposed and strictly enforced arbitraty laws.
It charged miners a large amount of money to get a license for mining and a ten percent royalty on all of the gold digged.
<em>She resents them going off war </em>
I think it might be metaphor
By splitting the book into two perspectives