North and South, Chapter 8 요약

줄거리

1. Fog, household disorder, illness, and depleted funds make the Hales’ new home feel bleak and inescapable.
2. Edith’s cheerful letter prompts Margaret to compare her present hardships with the comfortable life she knows in London.
3. Mr. Hale gains pupils and admires Mr. Thornton, while his wife resents their growing friendship.
4. Margaret searches for household help and gradually understands the factory girls’ friendly but unfamiliar manners.
5. She exchanges smiles with a careworn workman, then offers flowers to his sick daughter.
6. Nicholas and Bessy Higgins invite Margaret to visit, and her interest in them makes Milton feel brighter.

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Margaret’s surroundings remain unchanged, but her concern for the Higginses changes her experience of Milton. Personal attachment begins to replace isolation.

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