{"id":588,"date":"2017-09-06T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=588"},"modified":"2017-12-06T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:41:28","slug":"lucys-secret-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/06\/lucys-secret-object\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy’s Secret Object"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cShe had never taken her left hand from the black ribbon at her throat. She drew it from her bosom as she spoke, and looked at the object attached to it\u201d (Braddon 17)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Before arriving at this passage in Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/u>, Sir Audley had just proposed to Lucy Graham. After a moment of consideration Lucy accepted the proposal which excited Sir Audley, but also made him worrisome about her reasoning for accepting the proposal. They part ways and Lucy enters the privacy of her own room. This passage then follows, and the reader gets a glimpse into why Lucy may have been hesitant when responding to Sir Audley\u2019s proposal. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Reading this passage, it appears that Lucy is having trouble letting go of something since she had \u201cnever\u201d took her hand off the ribbon with the object. Also, she kept the object attached at her \u201cbosom\u201d which has an indication that this object is very near-and-dear to her heart and she wants to keep it close. The object is \u201cattached\u201d to the ribbon, and the ribbon, is attached to her so essentially this object is something she is attached or connected to. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The rhyming between \u201cthroat\u201d and \u201cspoke\u201d may lead the reader to think more about what is happening in the lines indicated above. Drawing from those words, and the context around them, the object could be tied around her throat to influence her to think before she speaks. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The reader is meant to know that Lucy is clearly hiding the object from the people around her. But why? What is she hiding? The mystery of it all makes the reader eager to find out.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cShe had never taken her left hand from the black ribbon at her throat. She drew it from her bosom as she spoke, and looked at the object attached to it\u201d (Braddon 17) Before arriving at this passage in Lady Audley\u2019s Secret, Sir Audley had just proposed to Lucy Graham. After a moment of consideration … Continue reading Lucy’s Secret Object<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}