1. Forgiveness, Christianity, and Class in Mary Barton
She gives this extra money to Mary, when she is hungry, and when she goes to Liverpool: ?... for pride often prevents our giving others a great deal of pleasure, in not letting them be kind, when their hearts are so longing to help? ... Up until chapter 24, With the Dying, Mary is not a very religious person. ... But at the beginning of this chapter, the narrator compares her and Jane Wilson to Naomi and Ruth from the Bible (265) and this is one of the first, if not the first, passages to be directly religious regarding Mary. In the following chapter, Mrs. ...
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