Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Would you have given Tess the advice her mother gave her? Why, or why not?

Would you have given Tess the advice her mother gave her? Why, or why not?

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It is difficult to judge Joan. In the context of the time, marrying well was the only way out of poverty for most women. Still there is something to the adage that if Angel really loved her, he would not mind. I would have been inclined to tell him the truth because the consequences of Angel finding out later would be (and they were) dire.