Villette, Chapter 1 요약

줄거리

1. The narrator describes her peaceful visits to Mrs. Bretton and hints at unnamed troubles among her own relatives.
2. A letter prompts preparations for a child whose mother dies and whose father needs travel for his troubled spirits.
3. Paulina Mary arrives on a stormy evening, accepts Mrs. Bretton’s warmth, and asks anxiously about her absent father.
4. She withdraws to cry quietly and remains awake and tearful in the bedroom she shares with the narrator.
5. At daylight, she struggles to dress herself, prays, and tells Harriet she wants to manage without her help.
6. At breakfast, Paulina refuses food, and Mrs. Bretton says she needs someone in the house to become attached to.

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Paulina states why kindness alone does not reassure her. She wants her father and feels surrounded by strangers.

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