Daddy Long Legs - Jean Webster Q & A

when Jerusha refers to being "properly brought-up," she means having received a conventional and respectable upbringing, typically associated with good manners, social graces, and a solid education, which she feels she lacked growing up in the orphanage, where the focus was primarily on basic necessities rather than refined social behavior.

Sep 06, 2024 06:35 PM

By: babdeita96

Jody expresses his sympathies for the fawn that has just lost its mother. He seeks his father''s permission to raise the fawn. Judy graduates college and is pursuing her dream to become a writer.

Aug 21, 2024 04:24 PM

By: kripksaini

Lippett, the home''s matron, calls for Jerusha in her office. On her way there, she glimpses one of the Trustee''s long, spindly, and spidery shadow cast by the headlights of his awaiting car ("The Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home").

Aug 21, 2024 04:51 PM

By: kripksaini

Jerusha even if she did sometimes jerk him by the arm and nearly scrub his nose off. Jerusha went without comment, but with two parallel lines on her brow. What could have gone wrong, she wondered.

Aug 21, 2024 05:10 PM

By: kripksaini

Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were completely dependent on charity.

Aug 21, 2024 05:15 PM

By: kripksaini

Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were completely dependent on charity.

Aug 21, 2024 09:30 PM

By: kripksaini

He wanted to sponsor jerusha as she was very good at studies. She also told that he only sponsored the boys and didn''t trust on girls but jerusha was one of them whom he wanted to sponsor for her good qualities.

Aug 21, 2024 05:22 PM

By: kripksaini

She begs Daddy Long Legs to attend her graduation ceremony so that she can finally meet the man who has changed her life.. Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were completely dependent on charity.

Aug 21, 2024 05:25 PM

By: kripksaini

Julia doesn''t notice Jerusha right away. She is too wrapped up in her family''s prestige, and she seems to be bored by everything going on around her. By contrast, Jerusha is excited by everything because everything is a new experience to her.

Aug 21, 2024 06:06 PM

By: kripksaini

Mrs. Lippett called Jerusa to the office because she wanted to discuss the generous offer from the trustee to send Jerusa to the college.

Aug 21, 2024 09:21 PM

By: kripksaini

Jerusha does not know the name of her benefactor because he wants to remain unknown. she decides to call him Daddy-Long-Legs because she had a fleeting glimpse of his shadow.

May 16, 2023 06:48 PM

By: YadaviSane

Jerusha had an imagination—an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn''t take care—but keen as it was, it could not carry her beyond the front porch of the houses she would enter.

May 16, 2023 06:49 PM

By: YadaviSane

Jerusha escaped from the pantry where she had been making sandwiches for the asylum''s guests, and turned upstairs to accomplish her regular work. Her special care was room F, where eleven little tots, from four to seven, occupied eleven little cots set in a row.

May 16, 2023 06:51 PM

By: YadaviSane

Johnsy saw an ivy creeper climbing half-way up the brick wall opposite their window. In the strong wind outside, the creeper was shedding it''s leaves.

May 16, 2023 06:58 PM

By: YadaviSane

day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkled.

May 16, 2023 07:01 PM

By: YadaviSane

One hundred dollars would buy some coal and some shoes for three children so that they could go to school, and give a little margin so that she needn''t worry herself to death when a few days pass and she doesn''t get work. That girl deserves help a lot more than I
ever did.

May 16, 2023 07:08 PM

By: YadaviSane

To take a trip to florida

May 06, 2023 12:12 AM

By: lvitoypogi

In Jerusha we find a girl full of dreams and aspirations, wanting to progress and become the best she can be in spite of all the difficulties. According to an old French peasant legend, seeing a daddy longlegs in the evening is a good thing, foretelling good fortune, happiness, and hope.

May 16, 2023 07:10 PM

By: YadaviSane

Jerusha instead decides jokingly to call him Daddy Long Legs because she caught a glimpse of his shadow and saw that he is a tall, long- legged man. Jerusha is then sent to an all- girls college on the East Coast.

May 16, 2023 07:14 PM

By: YadaviSane

Judy must write him a monthly letter because he believes that letter-writing is important to the development of a writer. However, she will never know his identity; she must address the letters to Mr. John Smith, and he never will reply.

May 16, 2023 07:14 PM

By: YadaviSane

After four years of study and several failed attempts at a first novel, Jerusha completes her studies. She begs Daddy Long Legs to attend her graduation ceremony so that she can finally meet the man who has changed her life.

May 16, 2023 07:18 PM

By: YadaviSane