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- Book 1- shows no emotion except towards Tom; shows small signs of rebellion but is still controlled by her father's education system; agrees to marry Bounderby based on fact (and Tom's convincing)
- Book 2- her emotions begin to show; recognises her hatred for Bounderby and affection for James Harthouse; emotions at the forefront when she confronts her father about the way she has raised him
- Book 3- learning to understand her emotions with the help of Sissy; lives the rest of her life alone and childless, but is now capable of love, shown to Sissy and her children
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- 'There was an air of jaded sullenness in them both, and particularly in the girl: yet, struggling through the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression.' -Book 1 Chapter 3
- 'I am as cheerful, father, as I usually am, or usually have been' -Book 1 Chapter 14
- 'What do I know...of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections' -Book 1 Chapter 15
- 'She can shut herself up within herself, and think' -Book 2 Chapter 3
- 'I do not know that I am sorry, I do not know that I am ashamed, I do not know that I am degraded in my own esteem. All that I know is, your philosophy and your teaching will not save me. Now, father, you have brought me to this. Save me by some other means!' -Book 2 Chapter 12
- 'In the innocence of her brave affection, and the brimming up of her old devoted spirit, the once deserted girl shone like a beautiful light upon the darkness of the other' -Book 3 Chapter 1
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