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One of the interesting things about this book is how it starts out so bleak (so much death!) and with a protagonist who is so unlikable. Yet, it is such a pleasure to witness the transformation, and you are cheering for the growth in the character development. So many negative words one could describe the initial Mary: self-absorbed, imperious, ugly, sickly, sour, glum, friendless, unloved, unwanted, contrary.
AnotherCat, I have a different problem. I can’t get the repetition of the nursery rhyme “Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow” out of my head. I kept stumbling over Martha’s name at the beginning because Mary & Martha are so similar.
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