Agnes Grey (Classic)

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Synopsis
Young Agnes must venture forth into the big bad world to earn her living since her father ignored her mother's advice and lost all their money.

My Thoughts
Agnes is a sheltered young woman who goes out to earn money to help relieve the family problems due to her father's speculation.
But since she's not of the laboring class, she can only do certain kinds of work because heaven forbid she do something below her station. So she goes through several families as a governess.

And this is where my snark and meany side kicked in. Agnes expects that she can reason with the children to make them act in the way she wants, as she doesn't have the authority or backing from the parents to make the children do things. The first family has a young boy as the oldest. Have you ever tried to reason with a young boy? Yeah, it doesn't work so much. Even if he's a good boy. And such like.

And remember that "class/station" thing? Well, Agnes gets all riled up when the people she is working for treat her like a servant and ignore her and don't ask her to in their social circles.

WELL, BIG FREAKING DUH!

I take that back. She doesn't get riled up. She sermonizes and moralizes to her journal. Which brings up the other thing I didn't like about Agnes. She was a naive, self-righteous milk-sop. Argh.

With all that, you might wonder why I gave it 3 stars. It was well written. It was engaging. It showed me how a closeted young girl would react to the more decadent side of England. I don't know if I want to read Anne's one other book now though. Pure vanilla pudding is ok, but nothing you want to eat a lot of.

Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Author: Anne Bronte