“There was a flood of good faith in it that, though I had not yet seen the child, my very fears made me jump to the absurdity of the idea.” Pg. 17
This quote describes the way that the governess feels after she has heard the news that the other child she will be taking care of, Miles, has been dismissed from his previous school. The letter received outlined the news briefly; it didn’t go into any particulars as to why the boy was dismissed other than, “That he is an injury to others.” Immediately after the governess, instead of being worried for her own fate like most individuals would, she jumped to a position defending the boy. This boy she was fantasizing over meeting now appears to be “contaminate” and “corrupt” the others around him. This says a great deal about the strangeness of the governess’s judgment. She has these angelic thoughts of the children she has been hired to take care of. This poses a question about her thought and actions. Is she really into the job of caretaking because of her love for children? Or she in it for the bachelor (that hired her) she has infatuated with? These strange defending thoughts are evidence to the latter of the two questions and makes me wonder to what extremes will she take this lust for a man she hasn’t even encountered? The governess is a strange woman, and I am excited to see what her next moves are!
Jenn Hergert "I held her tighter. 'You like them with the spirit to be naughty?' Then, keeping pace with her answer, 'So do I!' I eagerly brought out. 'But not to the degree to contaminate-'...I explained it. 'To corrupt.'"
The governess, after receiving the report about Miles being kicked out of school, isn't very sure of what she should think about the little boy. Mrs. Grose assures her that the little boy is the most perfect child ever, and would never do something as horrible as described in the letter from the school. However, despite the fact that Miles obviously did something very, very bad, the governess doesn't pursue the issue or question the school, but simply takes Mrs. Grose's word that the little kid is an angel. I think this reaction to Miles getting expelled explains a lot about the governess's character, and probably foreshadows significant trouble with the little boy in the future.
“The scene has a greatness that made a different affair from my own scant home, and there immediately appeared at the door, with a little girl in her hand, a civil person who dropped me as decent a curtsey as if I had been the mistress or distinguished visitor.” (pg. 11)
This quote helps develop the theme of beauty. The governess has just arrived to the house; she will be watching over and notices the differences between this house and her own. She grew up in a small country town and has not had many experiences. She has not seen the world beyond her small town. Throughout the book, the governess brings up many times where she notices the beauty in things, that she did not know existed. It seemed like she has lived a sheltered life.
"Used to be with me in these wanderings was that it would be with me in these wanderings was that it would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet some one. Some one would appear there at the turn of a path and would stand before me and smile and aprrove. I didn't ask more than that he should know...in his handsome face". pg 24 -This quote is where the Governess is showing how creative and wild her imagination truly is. She is a person who can let him mind take here anywhere, which makes us wonder is she just making us suspect the worst because she is letting her imagination get the better of her? Shows us a little in depth about who she is and how she works.
"At this she raised her eyes, which she had turned from me; I saw them fill with good tears. What has he done?" pg 17
This is the quote in the book when Mrs. Grose finds out that Miles is not allowed back at school after the holiday break. This quote gives me a feeling that Miles may be some sort of troubled kid since they called him an "Injury to others". I think of being an injury to others as someone who is maybe a bully and really mean to all of the other kids. But I guess I will have to wait and find out.
Samielle Foltz “...I was under a charm apparently that could smooth away the extent and the far and difficult connexions...” (pg 22)
When the Governess comes to her place of employment she feels like she's entered into some type of fantasy world. The environment is heavenly, the children are perfect, and Mr. Prince Charming has entered into her life. But at this point where she's been at the job for a while things have started to change and she realizes that these things are only playing upon her imagination, she sees only what she wants to see. That makes her into an unreliable narrator but we can't say for sure because we don't really know whether everything she's describing is actually happening or it's all in her head.
"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little see-saw of the right throbs and the wrong." (10)
This was the very first sentence from the book and actually gave me a lot of insight into what to expect. On the story side I can expect a story with a lot of ups and down in plot and probably in character emotions as well. It seems like there are going to be good high emotions and low sad or scared emotions as well. From this sentence it also gave me a feel for how Henry James writes and the tempo of the book.
"What I then and there took him to my heart for was something divine that I have never found to the same degree in any child-his indescibable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love." (pg 212)
This is just one of many parts where the governess has idolized or seen the children as angelic. There will be this religious view through out the booko. She is always so mystified by them and she believes she was sent there to be their guardian angel.
"So, I saw him as I see the letters form on this page; then, exactly, after a minute, as if to add to the spectacle, he slowly changed his place--passed, looking at me hard after all the while, to the opposite corner of the platform" p27
As we already know, this is a ghost story. When the governess sees the man standing on the tower, she automatically gets an eerie feeling. I believe this is a foreshadowing of the ghosts that will come more later in the book. This also gives insight about the character of the governess because she does not get scared by the man standing on the tower, but just stops to look for a while. This shows that she is not easily frightened.
Jaina Shah “In her successor’s place ,” I suggested “ I should have wised to learn if the office brought with it-“ “Necessary danger to life?” Douglas completed my thought. “She did wish to learn, and she did learn.” You shall hear to-morrow what she learnt. (Pg.8)
Starting of the book on page eight, the book pretty much shows what to expect in the book. It’s going to be scary story about the girl who is feared by the secret. She feels like after the governess got hired, she entered into perfect world. And she is not feared to communicate with him of any sort. Also there will be alot of feeling or sadness.
"At this, with one of the quick turns of simple folk, she suddenly flamed up. "Master Miles!"- him an ingury?" There was such a flood in good faith in that, though I had not seen the child, my very fears made me jump to the absurdity of the idea." (17)
I found this quote to be quite interesting to the developement of the governess and how she thinks the children as perfect angels and can't seem to see how they could do no evil. This makes me get an idea that this almost brainwashed thinking of the kids could lead to some kind of plot twist later on with the ghosts. Also it is a really good theme for good versus evil, in this case the children being very pure and the ghost to be evil.
"I learnt something--at first certainly--that had not been one of the teachings of my small smothered life; learnt to be amused, and even amusing, and not to think for the morrow. It was the first time, in a manner, that I had known space and air and freedom, all the music of summer and all the mystery of nature" (p.23)
This quote shows how the Governess came from a sheltered life. It gives insight to how her character will develop and grow as she interacts with these two children and Flora. Her sheltered life is going to start looking like a different bubbled world. It foreshadows how her perspective on life will start to change as she spends more time at that place. The most important part of this quotes is really that it shows how our character is going to come out of her shell throughout the book.
"I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy sprite, such a place as would somehow, for diversion of the young idea, take all colour out of story-books and fairytales" (14)
If anything, we know that the governess' perceptions of Bly is impacted by her emotion at the time. She describes Bly as being like a castle when she first arrives because of how different it was from the last place she lived. Her awe of the mansion makes her describe it almost heavenly, like the Garden of Eden. Having a narrator who constantly describes their environment based off how they feel about may make it difficult to determine what actually happens.
"He appeared thus again with I won't say greater distinctness, for that was impossible, bubt with a nearness that represented a forward stride in our intercourse and made me, as I met him, catch my breath and turned cold" p. 32
This helps develope the major theme of eerieness, and creates a build towards a later climax, when they meet face to face. Perhaps he is showing himself getting closer and closer so as to get her used to him until their encounter. Then the question remains what will he do? Will he be violent, or warn her of something. Perhaps he will simply give her a mystery to solve to save her life.
“We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger. They had nothing but me, and I–well, I had them… I was a screen–I was to stand before them. The more I saw the less they would” (45).
This quote shows just how protective the governess has become of little Miles and Flora. She is so intent on keeping the children safe that she is willing to risk her sanity and possibly her life to the mysterious ghost that repeatedly appears to her. The governess believes that she is very heroic because she is the only one who can protect the children from the ghostly figure.
“It was thrown in as well, from the first moment, that I should get on with Mrs. Grose in a relation over which, on my way, in the coach, I fear rather brooded. The one appearance indeed that in this early outlook might have made me shrink again was that of her being so inordinately glad to see me.” (11)
This quote helps build some mystery at the beginning of the story that Mrs. Grose has tom hide her excitement that the Governess has arrived. It is suspicious that she tries to hide her emotions because normally, she should be able to show that she is excited, although it clearly is important to Mrs. Grose to contain herself. This reaction invokes some of the mystery to come in the rest of the book.
" I used to speculate - but even this with a disconnectedness - as to how the rough future (for all futures are rough!) would handle them and might bruise them. They had the bloom of health and happiness..."
This quote shows how much the Governess worries about the two children when they are older and on their own. Right now she protects them and takes care of all their needs. This is important to the main theme in the book because she becomes like a guardian angel to the children and this shows her commitment to her job.
"He stopped at the other corner, but less long, and even as he turned away still markedly fixed me." -Pg. 17 (in my book)
This quote was describing when the governess saw the ghost on top of the tower. It did not break it's stared as it moved from one corner of the tower to the other. This quote is at the end of chapter chapter three and opens up the theme for paranormal activity in the book. This is just the beginning of a long string of strange / scary events to come.
"We had then a young woman--a nursemaid who had stayed on and who was a good girl and clever; and she took the children altogether for the interval. But our young lady never came back, and at the very moment i was expecting her i heard from the master that she was dead." Pg20
This is an example of the growing mysteriousness and death that is being conjured through this book. I believe this is also a foreshadowing of a haunting and or visitation by ghosts or just lots more death. This book seems to center around death and ghosts and mysteriousness. Thats the big theme this quote is building on. Mystery. Intrigue. Sounds exciting.
"The little girl who accompanied Mrs. Grose affected me on the spot as a creature too charming not to make it a great fortune to have to do with her." pg. 11
This is how the governess first describes the little girl she is to take care of. What's interesting is that the governess describes the girl (and the boy as well) as if they are extremely beautiful, and almost angelic. The governess seems to be in a state of awe at the sight of the children, despite only having knowledge of their appearance and not their personality. It will be interesting to see if the children's appearance on the outside matches their behavior on the inside.
"I myself had kept back nothing, but there was a word Mrs. Grose had kept back. I was sure moreover by morning that this was not from a failure of frankness, but because on every side there were fears." (pg. 44)
This quote seemed very important to me because it pointed out how Mrs. Grose was obviously holding information back from the governess. It also made me realize that as i have been reading this book, ive notice that Mrs. Grose always seems to be holding back information or her answers are very short. This hints how little the governess really know about the children and the past governess's they have had. It also sets up a theme that there are many secrets being kept and that they will be revealed as the book continues.
"No; it was a big ugly antique but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half-displaced and half-utilised, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was strangely at the helm!" pg 15
This is when the governess first arrives and describes Bly and compares it to a drifting ship. This is an interesting ending to the chapter because she has been describing her lovely first day with Flora and how angelic and wonderful she was. This was the first image of gloom in the chapter and I think it foreshadows events to happen later in the story. It was interesting how there was this sudden change of mood in the chapter. I think it reflects a little on the complexity of the way the governess thinks about things, as we discussed in class.
“She visibly tried to hold herself. “But he is handsome?” I saw the way to help her. “Remarkably!” “She seemed fairly to square herself, plant herself more firmly to express the wonder of it. “Yes, Mr. Quint’s dead” (38-39).
In this quote the governess is telling Mrs. Grose about the man that she saw and after a long description of what he looks like Mrs. Grose tells her that the man that she is seeing is Peter Quint. She also tells her that Peter Quint is dead and the governess realizes that she has seen a ghost. I think that it is a little weird that the governess thinks the ghost is handsome. This part of the book is important because it final answers the reader’s questions about who the man that has been staring at the governess really is.
The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance--all strewn with crumpled playbills
This quote goes to explain the eeriness of the house. It does a great job of explaining the dark, bland and creepy feel that the house brings. It shows that house has been left cold and without feeling.
"I'm rather easily carried away." - P. 14 (The Governess)
I thought that this gave quite an insight to the character of the governess because normally, if someone acknowledges the way they are, it is something that they are quite entrenched in. Her being easily carried away could be something that comes back and shows itself with this being a ghost story and all. I believe this quote could end up being important.
"Both the children had a gentleness-it was their only fault...that kept them...and certainly quite unpunishable."
This quote really stresses the children's ability to pass off as innocent, sweet devils. Miles, who has had problems at school, is so gentle his is unpunishable, yet he has done naughty things. This really goes off what Mrs. Grose says about the kids all the time. How they are sweet and innocent. The governess agrees.
Sarah Hale:)
ReplyDelete“There was a flood of good faith in it that, though I had not yet seen the child, my very fears made me jump to the absurdity of the idea.” Pg. 17
This quote describes the way that the governess feels after she has heard the news that the other child she will be taking care of, Miles, has been dismissed from his previous school. The letter received outlined the news briefly; it didn’t go into any particulars as to why the boy was dismissed other than, “That he is an injury to others.” Immediately after the governess, instead of being worried for her own fate like most individuals would, she jumped to a position defending the boy. This boy she was fantasizing over meeting now appears to be “contaminate” and “corrupt” the others around him. This says a great deal about the strangeness of the governess’s judgment. She has these angelic thoughts of the children she has been hired to take care of. This poses a question about her thought and actions. Is she really into the job of caretaking because of her love for children? Or she in it for the bachelor (that hired her) she has infatuated with? These strange defending thoughts are evidence to the latter of the two questions and makes me wonder to what extremes will she take this lust for a man she hasn’t even encountered? The governess is a strange woman, and I am excited to see what her next moves are!
Jenn Hergert
ReplyDelete"I held her tighter. 'You like them with the spirit to be naughty?' Then, keeping pace with her answer, 'So do I!' I eagerly brought out. 'But not to the degree to contaminate-'...I explained it. 'To corrupt.'"
The governess, after receiving the report about Miles being kicked out of school, isn't very sure of what she should think about the little boy. Mrs. Grose assures her that the little boy is the most perfect child ever, and would never do something as horrible as described in the letter from the school. However, despite the fact that Miles obviously did something very, very bad, the governess doesn't pursue the issue or question the school, but simply takes Mrs. Grose's word that the little kid is an angel. I think this reaction to Miles getting expelled explains a lot about the governess's character, and probably foreshadows significant trouble with the little boy in the future.
Christine Nafziger
ReplyDelete“The scene has a greatness that made a different affair from my own scant home, and there immediately appeared at the door, with a little girl in her hand, a civil person who dropped me as decent a curtsey as if I had been the mistress or distinguished visitor.” (pg. 11)
This quote helps develop the theme of beauty. The governess has just arrived to the house; she will be watching over and notices the differences between this house and her own. She grew up in a small country town and has not had many experiences. She has not seen the world beyond her small town. Throughout the book, the governess brings up many times where she notices the beauty in things, that she did not know existed. It seemed like she has lived a sheltered life.
Crystal Nybo
ReplyDelete"Used to be with me in these wanderings was that it would be with me in these wanderings was that it would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet some one. Some one would appear there at the turn of a path and would stand before me and smile and aprrove. I didn't ask more than that he should know...in his handsome face". pg 24
-This quote is where the Governess is showing how creative and wild her imagination truly is. She is a person who can let him mind take here anywhere, which makes us wonder is she just making us suspect the worst because she is letting her imagination get the better of her? Shows us a little in depth about who she is and how she works.
Erik Enselman
ReplyDelete"At this she raised her eyes, which she had turned from me; I saw them fill with good tears. What has he done?" pg 17
This is the quote in the book when Mrs. Grose finds out that Miles is not allowed back at school after the holiday break. This quote gives me a feeling that Miles may be some sort of troubled kid since they called him an "Injury to others". I think of being an injury to others as someone who is maybe a bully and really mean to all of the other kids. But I guess I will have to wait and find out.
Samielle Foltz
ReplyDelete“...I was under a charm apparently that could smooth away the extent and the far and difficult connexions...” (pg 22)
When the Governess comes to her place of employment she feels like she's entered into some type of fantasy world. The environment is heavenly, the children are perfect, and Mr. Prince Charming has entered into her life. But at this point where she's been at the job for a while things have started to change and she realizes that these things are only playing upon her imagination, she sees only what she wants to see. That makes her into an unreliable narrator but we can't say for sure because we don't really know whether everything she's describing is actually happening or it's all in her head.
Nik Toor
ReplyDelete"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little see-saw of the right throbs and the wrong." (10)
This was the very first sentence from the book and actually gave me a lot of insight into what to expect. On the story side I can expect a story with a lot of ups and down in plot and probably in character emotions as well. It seems like there are going to be good high emotions and low sad or scared emotions as well. From this sentence it also gave me a feel for how Henry James writes and the tempo of the book.
"What I then and there took him to my heart for was something divine that I have never found to the same degree in any child-his indescibable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love." (pg 212)
ReplyDeleteThis is just one of many parts where the governess has idolized or seen the children as angelic. There will be this religious view through out the booko. She is always so mystified by them and she believes she was sent there to be their guardian angel.
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ReplyDeleteKatie Martens
ReplyDelete"So, I saw him as I see the letters form on this page; then, exactly, after a minute, as if to add to the spectacle, he slowly changed his place--passed, looking at me hard after all the while, to the opposite corner of the platform" p27
As we already know, this is a ghost story. When the governess sees the man standing on the tower, she automatically gets an eerie feeling. I believe this is a foreshadowing of the ghosts that will come more later in the book. This also gives insight about the character of the governess because she does not get scared by the man standing on the tower, but just stops to look for a while. This shows that she is not easily frightened.
Jaina Shah
ReplyDelete“In her successor’s place ,” I suggested “ I should have wised to learn if the office brought with it-“ “Necessary danger to life?” Douglas completed my thought. “She did wish to learn, and she did learn.” You shall hear to-morrow what she learnt. (Pg.8)
Starting of the book on page eight, the book pretty much shows what to expect in the book. It’s going to be scary story about the girl who is feared by the secret. She feels like after the governess got hired, she entered into perfect world. And she is not feared to communicate with him of any sort. Also there will be alot of feeling or sadness.
Laura Ahlrep
ReplyDelete"At this, with one of the quick turns of simple folk, she suddenly flamed up. "Master Miles!"- him an ingury?" There was such a flood in good faith in that, though I had not seen the child, my very fears made me jump to the absurdity of the idea." (17)
I found this quote to be quite interesting to the developement of the governess and how she thinks the children as perfect angels and can't seem to see how they could do no evil. This makes me get an idea that this almost brainwashed thinking of the kids could lead to some kind of plot twist later on with the ghosts. Also it is a really good theme for good versus evil, in this case the children being very pure and the ghost to be evil.
Denisse Manrique
ReplyDelete"I learnt something--at first certainly--that had not been one of the teachings of my small smothered life; learnt to be amused, and even amusing, and not to think for the morrow. It was the first time, in a manner, that I had known space and air and freedom, all the music of summer and all the mystery of nature" (p.23)
This quote shows how the Governess came from a sheltered life. It gives insight to how her character will develop and grow as she interacts with these two children and Flora. Her sheltered life is going to start looking like a different bubbled world. It foreshadows how her perspective on life will start to change as she spends more time at that place. The most important part of this quotes is really that it shows how our character is going to come out of her shell throughout the book.
April Dick
ReplyDelete"I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy sprite, such a place as would somehow, for diversion of the young idea, take all colour out of story-books and fairytales" (14)
If anything, we know that the governess' perceptions of Bly is impacted by her emotion at the time. She describes Bly as being like a castle when she first arrives because of how different it was from the last place she lived. Her awe of the mansion makes her describe it almost heavenly, like the Garden of Eden. Having a narrator who constantly describes their environment based off how they feel about may make it difficult to determine what actually happens.
Breanna Taylor
ReplyDelete"He appeared thus again with I won't say greater distinctness, for that was impossible, bubt with a nearness that represented a forward stride in our intercourse and made me, as I met him, catch my breath and turned cold"
p. 32
This helps develope the major theme of eerieness, and creates a build towards a later climax, when they meet face to face. Perhaps he is showing himself getting closer and closer so as to get her used to him until their encounter. Then the question remains what will he do? Will he be violent, or warn her of something. Perhaps he will simply give her a mystery to solve to save her life.
Savannah Guillen
ReplyDelete“We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger. They had nothing but me, and I–well, I had them… I was a screen–I was to stand before them. The more I saw the less they would” (45).
This quote shows just how protective the governess has become of little Miles and Flora. She is so intent on keeping the children safe that she is willing to risk her sanity and possibly her life to the mysterious ghost that repeatedly appears to her. The governess believes that she is very heroic because she is the only one who can protect the children from the ghostly figure.
Lexy Kaftan :]
ReplyDelete"I suppose I had expected, or had dreaded, something so dreary that what greeted me was a good surprise." (p.10).
This is when she goes to meet the master to take care of the kids. Because she was raised by a pastor out in the country she didnt know what to expect
Gina Chenoweth
ReplyDelete“It was thrown in as well, from the first moment, that I should get on with Mrs. Grose in a relation over which, on my way, in the coach, I fear rather brooded. The one appearance indeed that in this early outlook might have made me shrink again was that of her being so inordinately glad to see me.” (11)
This quote helps build some mystery at the beginning of the story that Mrs. Grose has tom hide her excitement that the Governess has arrived. It is suspicious that she tries to hide her emotions because normally, she should be able to show that she is excited, although it clearly is important to Mrs. Grose to contain herself. This reaction invokes some of the mystery to come in the rest of the book.
Bridget Cook
ReplyDelete" I used to speculate - but even this with a disconnectedness - as to how the rough future (for all futures are rough!) would handle them and might bruise them. They had the bloom of health and happiness..."
This quote shows how much the Governess worries about the two children when they are older and on their own. Right now she protects them and takes care of all their needs. This is important to the main theme in the book because she becomes like a guardian angel to the children and this shows her commitment to her job.
"He stopped at the other corner, but less long, and even as he turned away still markedly fixed me." -Pg. 17 (in my book)
ReplyDeleteThis quote was describing when the governess saw the ghost on top of the tower. It did not break it's stared as it moved from one corner of the tower to the other. This quote is at the end of chapter chapter three and opens up the theme for paranormal activity in the book. This is just the beginning of a long string of strange / scary events to come.
Brian Gleadle
ReplyDelete"We had then a young woman--a nursemaid who had stayed on and who was a good girl and clever; and she took the children altogether for the interval. But our young lady never came back, and at the very moment i was expecting her i heard from the master that she was dead." Pg20
This is an example of the growing mysteriousness and death that is being conjured through this book. I believe this is also a foreshadowing of a haunting and or visitation by ghosts or just lots more death. This book seems to center around death and ghosts and mysteriousness. Thats the big theme this quote is building on. Mystery. Intrigue. Sounds exciting.
Brody Hovatter
ReplyDelete"The little girl who accompanied Mrs. Grose affected me on the spot as a creature too charming not to make it a great fortune to have to do with her." pg. 11
This is how the governess first describes the little girl she is to take care of. What's interesting is that the governess describes the girl (and the boy as well) as if they are extremely beautiful, and almost angelic. The governess seems to be in a state of awe at the sight of the children, despite only having knowledge of their appearance and not their personality. It will be interesting to see if the children's appearance on the outside matches their behavior on the inside.
Leslee Fall
ReplyDelete"I myself had kept back nothing, but there was a word Mrs. Grose had kept back. I was sure moreover by morning that this was not from a failure of frankness, but because on every side there were fears." (pg. 44)
This quote seemed very important to me because it pointed out how Mrs. Grose was obviously holding information back from the governess. It also made me realize that as i have been reading this book, ive notice that Mrs. Grose always seems to be holding back information or her answers are very short. This hints how little the governess really know about the children and the past governess's they have had. It also sets up a theme that there are many secrets being kept and that they will be revealed as the book continues.
"No; it was a big ugly antique but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half-displaced and half-utilised, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was strangely at the helm!" pg 15
ReplyDeleteThis is when the governess first arrives and describes Bly and compares it to a drifting ship. This is an interesting ending to the chapter because she has been describing her lovely first day with Flora and how angelic and wonderful she was. This was the first image of gloom in the chapter and I think it foreshadows events to happen later in the story. It was interesting how there was this sudden change of mood in the chapter. I think it reflects a little on the complexity of the way the governess thinks about things, as we discussed in class.
Tori Weisel
ReplyDelete“She visibly tried to hold herself. “But he is handsome?” I saw the way to help her. “Remarkably!”
“She seemed fairly to square herself, plant herself more firmly to express the wonder of it. “Yes, Mr. Quint’s dead” (38-39).
In this quote the governess is telling Mrs. Grose about the man that she saw and after a long description of what he looks like Mrs. Grose tells her that the man that she is seeing is Peter Quint. She also tells her that Peter Quint is dead and the governess realizes that she has seen a ghost. I think that it is a little weird that the governess thinks the ghost is handsome. This part of the book is important because it final answers the reader’s questions about who the man that has been staring at the governess really is.
The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance--all strewn with crumpled playbills
ReplyDeleteThis quote goes to explain the eeriness of the house. It does a great job of explaining the dark, bland and creepy feel that the house brings. It shows that house has been left cold and without feeling.
Maxx Forde
ReplyDelete"I'm rather easily carried away."
- P. 14 (The Governess)
I thought that this gave quite an insight to the character of the governess because normally, if someone acknowledges the way they are, it is something that they are quite entrenched in. Her being easily carried away could be something that comes back and shows itself with this being a ghost story and all. I believe this quote could end up being important.
Will Quattlebaum
ReplyDelete"Both the children had a gentleness-it was their only fault...that kept them...and certainly quite unpunishable."
This quote really stresses the children's ability to pass off as innocent, sweet devils. Miles, who has had problems at school, is so gentle his is unpunishable, yet he has done naughty things. This really goes off what Mrs. Grose says about the kids all the time. How they are sweet and innocent. The governess agrees.