Here we encounter some more creatures out to get Tiffany and she learns more than perhaps she wanted to know about the Feegles and their relationship to her grandmother. I love Tiffany's recollections of her granny, and how she sees them differently as she grows and changes her world viewpoint. I suppose all of us do this as we mature, but realizing that even from the age of seven up to eleven someone like Tiffany could look back and realize what she'd done to someone she loved, without even meaning to...
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I don't think I quite understand why Tiffany thought her grandmother didn't like the figurine. I'm wondering if she actually really liked it, maybe she saw something like it when she was a child and had wanted it then. I think Tiffany is being way to hard on herself.
I don't think it was a matter of liking or not liking it, I think Tiffany thought she was holding her grandmother up to an expectation that her grandmother had never even realized existed. That a shepherdess should be so pretty and fine rather than an old woman with a dirty dress, old boots, and rough hands. I think Tiffany assumed that Granny Aching thought her granddaughter was disappointed, or ashamed of having a grandmother who was a shepherdess but didn't look like this lovely image that the world thought a shepherdess should look like. I doubt Tiffany thought any such thing, and was merely proud to share her prize with her grandmother, but she was still giving her grandmother a wider world view of how other people saw her and how she might measure up to their expectations...at least those people away from The Chalk.
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