![]() ![]() Daddy-Long-Legs never writes back, as per his deal, so Judy’s letters are a one-sided conversation. She happens to catch sight of his long, thin shadow leaving the asylum, and instead of calling him John Smith, as he’s requested, she rebaptizes him Daddy-Long-Legs.Īnd this is just the lovely beginning of four years of letters from Judy at college. ![]() The only repayment he asks is that she write him monthly letters to let him know how she’s getting on. One day, she’s inexplicably chosen by an anonymous trustee for a scholarship to college. Jerusha Abbott (later she renames herself “Judy”) is an orphan at a dreary asylum where she’s been cared for and educated but not loved. Now that I’ve read it in rapidly-approaching middle age, I wish I’d read it when I was twelve I would have had decades more time loving this book. That was my experience reading Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. But sometimes when I read them, I only wish I’d read them years ago because then I would have had so many more years of enjoying such a wonderful book. Sometimes when I read children’s or young adult classics, I think wistfully that I wish I’d read them when I was a child, because I don’t appreciate them quite as much now as I would have then. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |