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By Bloomfield on
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I read a summary of D.C. recently which stated that Annie had had an affair with Jack Maldon. My interpretation of her conversation with her husband, the conversation inspired by Mr Dick, was that the silence that had come between her and her husband was due to a misunderstanding, to suggestions by her mother which upset her, and to a general lack of communication, rather than any real-life affair. Am I correct or incorrect?
Also - am I correct in assuming that Emily was raped by Steerforth, and so is not fit for her husband-to-be?
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Annie had an affair with Maldon, but before he married Dr. Strong. She says:
"We had been little lovers once. If circumstances had not happened otherwise, I might have come to persuade myself that I really loved him, and might have married him, and been most wretched. There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose"
And she confesses that her marriage helped her to avoid this unsuitable affair:
"'There is nothing,' said Annie, 'that we have in common. I have long found that there is nothing. If I were thankful to my husband for no more, instead of for so much, I should be thankful to him for having saved me from the first mistaken impulse of my undisciplined heart.'"
Maybe "separation" isn't exactly the right word to describe the trouble in Annie's relationship with Dr. Strong. In separation there can't be trust and love, but they both trust, love and honor each other. I believe that most of their problems come from feelings of insecurity - Dr. Strong's because of his age and Annie's because of her very admiration for Dr. Strong.
As for Steerforth, I don't recall any evidence of a rape - unless that you give it a psychological sense, which would mean more "seduction" than rape.
Just an opinion
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