There are many lessons that can be learned from this novel. One major lesson is the human need for love. In Book First, Chapter 5, Maggie and Tom are in a fight and she is waiting in the attic for him to come look for her. She is filled with sorrow because she only wants Tom's love and affection. She wants to act tough and pretend like she's okay, but her need for love wins over. She hears his step on the stairs and her "need of love had triumphed over her pride" (39). The narrator goes on to state one of my favorite quotes from the novel, "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" (39). As we see throughout the rest of the novel, the need of love is a recurring lesson, especially shown through Maggie's life, even up to her death.
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There are many lessons that can be learned from this novel. One major lesson is the human need for love. In Book First, Chapter 5, Maggie and Tom are in a fight and she is waiting in the attic for him to come look for her. She is filled with sorrow because she only wants Tom's love and affection. She wants to act tough and pretend like she's okay, but her need for love wins over. She hears his step on the stairs and her "need of love had triumphed over her pride" (39). The narrator goes on to state one of my favorite quotes from the novel, "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" (39). As we see throughout the rest of the novel, the need of love is a recurring lesson, especially shown through Maggie's life, even up to her death.
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