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How Is Atonement Similar To Robbie Turner?

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From her first days, with her name coming from a Leonardo de Vinci painting called Ginevra de’ Benci, Ginevra lived a life of splendor (Smith). As with Cecilia, Ginevra’s father, Charles Garfield King, brought her family their income as a successful and wealthy stockbroker (Smith). Being only 16 years old, Ginevra got into, or was bought into, a prestigious all women’s preparatory school called Westover (Stevens). Ginevra’s living quarters were also, similar to Cecilia, luxurious, with their house being up for sale for $16.5 million in 2013 (Spula). The former King home is 7,424 square feet (Spula). Along with the home was 45 acres of land, which had been added on to the property since it was up for sale in 2007 through 2009 with, at the time, only 8 acres of land …show more content…

Clearly, money wise, just like the character Cecilia Tallis from the novel Atonement, Ginevra was not hurting. Robbie Turner from the novel Atonement and F. Scott Fitzgerald also show some similarities and differences. Robbie Turner, who is comparable to F. Scott Fitzgerald, came from servants (82). Robbie’s father was not around to support his family, for the “had walked out long ago” (81). This left Robbie’s mother Grace to become a “charlady who supplemented her income as an occasional clairvoyant” (81). The mother and son lived on their master’s property in a bungalow which contained a study, which “was squashed under the apex of the bungalow’s roof...barely six feet long and five foot wide” (76). The floor plan of the bungalow also included two small bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen. The kitchen had only a “knife-scarred kitchen table [that] took up most of the space” (76). Robbie and his mother did what they could with what they had. F. Scott Fitzgerald, as with Robbie Turner, was of low social status (Raven). Though both of Fitzgerald’s parents were around to supply income, opposite to Robbie Turner in Atonement, neither had

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