What aspects of Mrs. Peebles and her life does Edie admire or envy? Whatthings about Mrs. Peebles does she find off-putting?
What will be an ideal response?
- What Edie chiefly admires and especially envies about Mrs. Peebles is the way she lives—well-dressed, well-fed, not harried by a life of constant chores and the demands of too many children. She also feels that she is tolerably well treated by Mrs. Peebles, but only up to a point; past that point, she senses, rightly or wrongly, that Mrs. Peebles is rather cold toward her, condescending, and perhaps a bit suspicious. In some respects, she herself looks down on Mrs. Peebles for her ignorance of country people and their ways, and especially for her inability to perform many of the most basic of the ordinary chores that, in her world, make up a woman’s life. Obviously, Edie’s own defensiveness about how she must look in Mrs. Peebles’s eyes leads her to take a similarly patronizing attitude in return.
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