One of my least favorite characters is probably Mrs. Glegg. She is one of Mrs. Tulliver's sisters and is introduced early in the novel. She visits the Tullivers and from the moment she arrives all she does is criticize the Tullivers' lives and the way they live. She is pushy and bossy to Mrs. Tulliver and makes her feel bad about how she raises her children. The narrator says that "Aunt Glegg always spoke to them [the children] in this loud emphatic way, as if she considered them deaf, or perhaps rather idiotic: it was a means, she thought, of making them feel that they were accountable creatures, and might be a salutary check on naughty tendencies. Bessy's children were so spoiled- they'd need somebody to make them feel their duty" (64).
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One of my least favorite characters is probably Mrs. Glegg. She is one of Mrs. Tulliver's sisters and is introduced early in the novel. She visits the Tullivers and from the moment she arrives all she does is criticize the Tullivers' lives and the way they live. She is pushy and bossy to Mrs. Tulliver and makes her feel bad about how she raises her children. The narrator says that "Aunt Glegg always spoke to them [the children] in this loud emphatic way, as if she considered them deaf, or perhaps rather idiotic: it was a means, she thought, of making them feel that they were accountable creatures, and might be a salutary check on naughty tendencies. Bessy's children were so spoiled- they'd need somebody to make them feel their duty" (64).
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