APS TOGETHER
Day 23
Villette by Charlotte BrontëChapters XXX–XXXI
December 7, 2022 by Yiyun Li
Lucy Snowe and Seneca would have made perfect friends. Her stoicism and her eloquence both live up to Seneca’s standard.
I am ignorant, monsieur, in the knowledge you ascribe to me, but I sometimes, not always, feel a knowledge of my own.
The cost of living is always present in the novel, which is not about having an annual income or inheriting something from a dead uncle, but every sou earned before it can be spent
Living costs little in this economical town of Villette…
Despite her self-deprecation, Lucy Snowe does always speak to herself unequivocally.
Call anguish—anguish, and despair—despair.
