Vanity Fair, Chapter 42: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. Frederick Bullock marries Maria Osborne after failing to secure a larger marriage settlement from her father.
2. Maria’s pursuit of fashionable society leads her to slight her father and sister, angering Mr. Osborne.
3. Jane lives unhappily under her father’s control, with George’s memory left unspoken in their gloomy home.
4. The narrator recounts how Mr. Osborne expels Jane’s drawing teacher and companion, then threatens disinheritance if she marries without permission.
5. The Misses Dobbin arrange a visit for little George, while Amelia writes gratefully to the Major about his reported marriage.
6. George returns with Jane’s gifts, and Jane tells her father how closely the child resembles his dead son.

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Jane connects the child directly with her dead brother. Her words break the household’s silence about George and provoke a visible reaction from her father.

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