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“It has often been remarked that woman have a curious power of divining the characters of men”(75). This quotation from Charles Dickens reflects the opposite of what a typical Dickensian society is supposedly based upon. In this standard society, the plot wou ....

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.... is the only woman within the nunnery that has a man to court her. She is the only woman mentioned, in the nunnery, that is going to be married off to a man, not God. Rosa capitalizes on this situation by leading the other girls in the nunnery to be her “poor pets”(118). She realizes that the girls as well as the head of the school, Miss Twinkleton, who describes Rosa as her “pet pupil”(14), look at her to be the embodiment of romance because of her prospective marriage. Miss Twinkleton and the girls live their love lives through Rosa, “over her shoulder”(51). Rosa feeds into the situation by making sure that the girls are watching her and ....