5/27/2023 0 Comments The adoration of jenna fox book![]() ![]() While the house improves daily, with “workers coming and going and restoring” (43), Jenna feels that her mother “expects to see the same measure of improvement” (43) in Jenna’s memory. Both projects are rigidly overseen by Jenna’s mother: “Fixing me and the Cotswold are her new careers” (13). And just as Jenna is in the process of healing, the house is in the process of being renovated. Jenna’s own room is “cold.in temperament” (15), much as Jenna herself is, as she has trouble processing emotions or feeling love (9). Since a “Cotswold” is a kind of sheep, Jenna reasons, “we should live in a one-room house meant for sheep” (15), instead of a twenty-room estate where most of the rooms are locked or empty. Jenna immediately recognizes that there is something unnatural about this big mansion-for some reason described as a “cottage”-just as there is something unnatural about the way she lives. ![]() One early and consistent motif is the comparison between Jenna’s house and her room and Jenna herself. ![]()
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