{"id":600,"date":"2017-09-07T00:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T04:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=600"},"modified":"2017-12-06T09:41:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:41:02","slug":"lucy-loves-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/07\/lucy-loves-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Loves No One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cShe laughed aloud at his question. \u2018I do not love any one in the world,\u2019 she answered.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>(Braddon 17)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this quote, from chapter one of Braddon\u2019s <em>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/em>, Lucy Graham is replying in quite a peculiar way to Sir Michael\u2019s question as to whom else she loves.\u00a0 There are two parts that I find most intriguing in this quote.\u00a0 The first is Lucy\u2019s laugh that comes prior her reply.\u00a0 When I imagine Lucy laughing, I hear it as more of a sarcastic laugh, as if she can hardly believe Sir Michael had even asked her such a question.\u00a0 From the lines following this quote, it seems as though he hears this tone in the laugh as well.\u00a0 The author could be using this as a helpful hint to the reader that Lucy is hiding something.\u00a0 It is especially strange because one would typically not laugh about loving no one.\u00a0 Michael is pleased by her answer, yet I believe this is where he first notices that there is something strange about the girl he admires.<\/p>\n<p>The second part of this quote which caught my attention is in Lucy\u2019s response where she claims to \u201cnot love any one in the world\u201d.\u00a0 I thought it was interesting how the author decided to use the spelling \u201cany one\u201d rather than \u201canyone\u201d.\u00a0 This tells me that Lucy is referring to any one person instead of just any person which could mean that Lucy has a specific person in mind who she had once loved but does no longer. I also believe there is some meaning behind her addition of \u201cin the world\u201d.\u00a0 This small phrase places more emphasis on her response and makes me wonder if maybe Lucy is referring to not the actual world but a new world she is now living in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe laughed aloud at his question. \u2018I do not love any one in the world,\u2019 she answered.\u201d\u00a0 (Braddon 17) &nbsp; In this quote, from chapter one of Braddon\u2019s Lady Audley\u2019s Secret, Lucy Graham is replying in quite a peculiar way to Sir Michael\u2019s question as to whom else she loves.\u00a0 There are two parts that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/07\/lucy-loves-no-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lucy Loves No One<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","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\/600","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\/3627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}