Vanity Fair, Chapter 1: riassunto

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1. The Sedley carriage arrives as Barbara Pinkerton prepares Amelia’s account, farewell letter, and customary dictionary.
2. Barbara refuses Jemima’s request to give Becky a dictionary because she considers her obligations to the poorer pupil complete.
3. Amelia’s friends mourn her departure, and the narrator describes her kindness, sensitivity, and popularity.
4. Becky addresses Barbara in French and refuses her offered hand, while Amelia receives an embrace.
5. Jemima brings sandwiches for Amelia and secretly supplies Becky with a dictionary as the carriage leaves.
6. Becky throws the dictionary into the garden, shocking Jemima as the school gates close.

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The sentence sharply separates Becky’s departure from Amelia’s emotional farewell. It makes Becky’s isolation plain before her rejection of the dictionary.

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