Vanity Fair, Chapter 41 요약

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1. Rebecca and Rawdon return to Queen’s Crawley, where Lady Jane’s affectionate welcome briefly moves Rebecca to tears.
2. Rebecca charms her sisters-in-law, praises Lady Southdown’s religious interests, and submits reluctantly to the Dowager’s medicine.
3. The old baronet receives an elaborate funeral, though almost nobody genuinely mourns him.
4. Rebecca flatters Sir Pitt, while Rawdon becomes deferential and gains his brother’s promise to oversee little Rawdon’s education.
5. Country routines lead Rebecca to consider how money supports respectable conduct and how little her social rise secures her happiness.
6. The family sends the couple away warmly, and they return to London, where Briggs and little Rawdon welcome them.

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Rebecca connects moral respectability with financial security. Her thought frames the narrator’s discussion of prosperity, temptation, and the limits of judging others.

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