Girls of slender means
The Girls of Slender Means by Murial Spark is a novelabout the girls who lived in the May of Teck Club during the year of 1945. There are many characters involved, but the one's who caught my attention the most are Jane Wright and Joanna Childe. They represent different aspects of ideas, lifestyles and, also, have different perspectives on the Joanna Childe was the daughter of a country rector. She was very intelligent, had "...strong obscure emotions" (8), and "...religious strength" (165). She was very well build. "Joanna Childe was large..." (9), "... fair and healthy-looking..." (22). She had light shiny hair, blue eyes and deep-pink cheeks. She never used a scrap of make-up because she didn't really care about her looks and she wasn't looking for a husband either. Jane Wright, on the other hand, was very fat and felt miserable about it. She tried to blame her work for her appetite. "...[she] was miserable about her fatness and spent much of her time in eager dread of the next meal, and in making resolutions what to eat of it and what to leave, and in making counter-resolutions in view of the fact that her work at the publisher's was ess
letters of a friendly tone but with a business intention, trying to rescue girls, who were trapped in the club from accent. "Joanna's method was to read each stanza herself certain words that she described as 'of a smouldering under the auspices of the pale foreigner. Thirdly and more thought of the publishing business as "...essentially Both women were similar in that they did additional
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Approximate Word count = 899
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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