Girls of slender means

A detailed Summary of Girls of slender means

The Girls of Slender Means by Murial Spark is a novel

about 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

Approximate Word count = 899
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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