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Quote #10
[Tom] had an idea the way [Polly Ann's] mind was going, recollecting the times she had told about Chick Hannaberry driving into the place with her sisters and herself and how she had to go up on the kitchen porch to the back door with a five-gallon pail of red raspberries, or blackberries, or whatever kind of berry they had been picking—a little girl in a ragged dirty dress and bare legs still showing bloody scratches from the berry vine, looking up when the hired girl fetched Mrs. Armond but not able to say a thing. Well, he thought, glancing sideways at her sitting on the high wagon seat beside him, you'd hardly believe she had ever been that little shabby girl. (63.4)
As important as it is for Tom to overcome his family's past, it may be even more important to Polly Ann because she had to live through the disappointments, frustrations, and hardships put on her by her father and husband. Here's the proof that she's done well.