Daddy-Long-Legs长腿叔叔英文读后感.docx

Not Just a Fairy Tale--Sentiment after reading Daddy-Long-LegsDaddy-Long-Legs, a best-known novel by the American writer Jean Webster, was written in the form of epistles, altogether 82 letters from our protagonist – Jerusha “Judy” Abbott. All these letters were written to her benefactor – the so-called “Daddy-Long-Legs” whose true name was Jervie Plendleton. A monthly letter to report her study was the only requirement of the wealthy asylum trustee “Daddy-Long-Legs” to finance orphan Judy’s college life, after he noticed Judy’s writing talent from her essay -- Blue Wednesday.Dedicated To You, the first person narrative novel leads readers, myself included, to the illusion that we are actually the receiver of Judy’s letters and the one she regarded as family. When reading the novel, we feel like the witnesses of Judy’s growing in the college. We can’t help worrying when the letters told us her ill or she’s in derision, delighting when she obtained a college scholarship, upsetting when she had to deny the genuine love of Jervie. Take it one step further; the reading process is like peeking at a girl’s diary, inducing a subtle excitement inside readers. Meanwhile, we are able to puzzle out, more or less, whom Daddy-Long-Legs is, but apparently Judy knows nothing about it. It’s a quite amusing and interesting experience to watch her gradually falling into the well-arranged “love trap” set by Jervie. Ultimately, Judy wrote her last letter in the novel but the first love-letter to her beloved Daddy-Long-Legs – Jervie, which is the end of the novel but a beginning of Judy and Jervie’s new life, a promising one.Admittedly, it is the romantic and pure love story that brings the novel a reputation of fairy tale for adults, but the theme is not made up of love only. What the growing of Judy reflects is the core of the book.Brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage, Judy encountered quite a few tribulations during college years. Lack of good education resul