“It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love—this hunger of the heart—as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.”
- This passage describes Maggie’s need for love, and how it affects her.
“Maggie, thinking it was no use to contend further, began too, and ate up her half-puff with considerable relish as well as rapidity. But Tom had finished first, and had to look on while Maggie ate her last morsel or two, feeling in himself a capacity for more. Maggie didn’t know Tom was looking at her: she was seesawing on the elder bough, lost to almost everything but a vague sense of jam and idleness.”
- This excerpt from the text shows how Maggie and Tom have a considerable amount of sibling rivalry, as well as a kind of jealousy towards one another.
These two quotes seem to stand out to me especially, because they seem to show the weaknesses of both Maggie and Tom. They both can get extremely jealous of one another, but at the same time, are the very best of friends.
--Allie
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