Nicola's remarks are also in keeping with the young Marlows' belief that Ginty, especially, articulates in this book and Peter's Room that nobody could possibly want to live beyond forty.
I guess it's an exaggeration for comic effect...or maybe it isn't. Maybe it just is how teenagers think. (I read both books as a teenager and don't remember these passages jarring.)
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Re: Mrs Clavering
Date: 2014-11-29 11:32 am (UTC)I guess it's an exaggeration for comic effect...or maybe it isn't. Maybe it just is how teenagers think. (I read both books as a teenager and don't remember these passages jarring.)