“The girl with a Pearl Earring” told the story about a sixteen year old girl that her name is Griet, who lives in a simple house with her parents and two siblings one oldest brother Frans and her younger sister Agnes. They do not have too much money, especially after Griet’s father had an accident at the tile factory, where he used to work before losing his eye sight. Then her family has to decide to send Griet to work as a maid in a Vermeer family, she has to live with them and she has just free Sunday to go to visit her family. She has to do housework, laundry, clean the studio, and take care of Catharina’s six children. She met the older maid Tanneke, she shows her the house and explain some of the thing that she has to do, Griet also have to go to the market. Griet is hired to help Tanneke however she is jealous from her because she is the only one allowed to clean the painter’s studio. In the house she sees a lot of painters. Cornelia one of the Catharina children sometimes had a good mood with her but sometimes not. Griet met someone in the meat shop his name his Pieter, who she gets her meat from. Griet heard from Pieter that her sister was ill because of the Plague; however she was not able to help and do anything to him.
Part I liked:
When she was doing her work and remembered the things that she did with her siblings. When they used to sit along the canal and throw things in pebbles, sticks, once a broken tile and imagine what they might touch of the bottom not fish, but creatures from their imagination, with many eyes. It makes her a very young girl that had to work to help his father.
Questions:
Why did not her older brother send money to help his father?
Why did she not have the opportunity to choose another job?
Interpretation:
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