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Compare Ginny's Letter To The Wife Of The D Urbervilles

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Ginny stared at the little cabin she’d been given. She could hardly imagine spending three

months into this little room. Inside was a small bed –more of a cot really- pushed up

against one wall. On the other wall there was a small desk and chair. On top of the desk

were two journals, one a gift from Christian and the other one Ginny brought. Ginny had

already poured her heart out in the one she brought. The one Christian had gotten her

would be filled with fake things in case he ever decided to read it, which Ginny assumed

he would.

Ginny supposed she should be counting her blessings instead of complaining. She could

have been forced to share a room with Christian. Due to the fact that they weren’t

married it wouldn’t have been proper if they had …show more content…

She had promised him that she would

never marry Christian, that she would never abandon him. He would think that she had

lied. He would think that she didn’t love him. He would think that she had been playing

with him all this time.

Oh if only he could know! Oh if only she could have written him one last letter, she

didn’t even need to see him, just write a letter explaining why she had accepted. If only

she could tell him how much her heart ached.

Ginny once again thought of the task that faced her. She was going to have to marry

Christian, Christian who was best described as a svengali. Stephen had called him that

once. A svengali was a person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on

another. Ginny knew that Christian did not have a mesmeric influence over her, but oh

how he tried to have a controlling one.

Ginny knew how easy it would be to give into Christian’s controlling grasp. How easy it

would be to just give up, surrender to Christian. She wouldn’t do that. She was strong.

Ginny thought of the things Stephen told her. He was always there for her. Even if he

wasn’t physically there, he was there in

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