ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Starlight, Idyll
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After she starts studying the queen s examination, p. 237. She settles down, perhaps she dreamed as much as ever, but she talked less. The influence of miss stacy teaching her pupils to be concise. Conventialization of her, she s become more of a heroine with her beauty. Miss stacy encourages the academic aspiration, and mrs. allan, the minister s wife, replaces the. Imagination exchanged for academics minister and institutional religion, kind of theological guidance there. P. 230-1 anne becomes steady through marilla s eyes: as close as the book gets to domesticating anne shirley. Montgomery-esque meg s journey to vanity fair, where anne learns that the trappings of wealth are not actually all they are cracked up to be. In contrast to alcott does, the critique of desire of material things is framed as imagination: same point is made when the girls come back from the poetry recitation.
