With everything going on around me, my two BIG papers which have to be written by the last week of the semester (2 weeks maybe?), changes at work (again), and the fact that 2 or 3 patients with COVID-19 have gone home from the hospital, I’m not sure what my response is to it all. The prediction is that we will soon be on the downhill slide with this pandemic, so I’m looking forward to getting back to something normal.
Now that Fanny has finally gotten back to Portsmouth, she thought she would be happy. Things didn’t work out the way she thought and it seems as if she is alienated from her parents and her siblings. Her father embarrasses her very much and her mother seems “more worn and faded”, except for on Sunday. (p. 409). Her brothers and sisters are combative, but they have grown up with each other and have not been separated as Fanny has. It is my opinion that Fanny needs to return to Mansfield Park. As she looks around her and listens to the noise of her mother’s house, when she sees the changes in her siblings, and the discomfort of the house, Fanny yearns to be back with her aunt and uncle at Mansfield Park. She has been gone from there almost a month and the news she gets from there, via Miss Clark, seems to cause her stress. Getting closer to her sister, Susan, will be beneficial to both girls. Fanny will be able to take her mind off of Edmund and Mary, and Susan will gain from the experience of her older sister.
The unwelcome arrival of Henry Clark did not help to ease the strain of missing her life with her aunt and uncle, but I thought it very interesting that Fanny did not go into any great introductions of him to her mother other than, “William’s friend” (p. 401) when he showed up at her mother’s house.
Fanny is a very organized girl, but she doesn’t have a lot of confidence in herself. I wonder what she would do or say if she were facing this coronavirus crisis that we are now facing? I would venture to say that she would probably be the one tending the sick patients because that seems to be the one thing that she is confident about. Would she make a good nurse?
Literature Rocks 