1. Forgiveness, Christianity, and Class in Mary Barton
She is at first upset that Mary did not let her in on her affair with young Carson, she is soon able to see that Mary is a good person, and that everyone makes mistakes from time to time, that this is human nature. ... She does eventually share her meal with him, but at first she tells him that hunger is nothing to be worried about, that there are much worse things in the world. Up until chapter 24, With the Dying, Mary is not a very religious person. ... But at the beginning of this chapter, the narrator compares her and Jane Wilson to Naomi and Ruth from the Bible (265) and this is...
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