“Dear Enemy” by Jean Webster

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  1. Reeka says:

    Oh Thanks, Ms Puddle. I’m so gonna buy the sequel.

    Ck ck ck, Mizuki, … can you be more obvious? With this, how could someone not be sure that Anohito was Albert?

  2. Quevivacandy says:

    Definitily, so many coincidences in both stories. I always thought Sally could be Patty in CC but now I’m not quiet sure… but only because the man she is in love with… suppress his true feelings? I only saw that in Archie – for Candy… grrr I don’t want to think more I guess, lol…

    At the end, what matters is that J&J are married, with a daughter, she doesn’t want to leave him as C doesn’t want to leave her husband, Judy married her guardian, so, what it that novell telling us? Candy married hers too… 😀

    • Ms Puddle says:

      It’s true, QuevivaCandy! So many parallels indeed! 😉 I read this book mainly because I had read somewhere that Jervis had paid for the reconstruction, and people said it showed his deep love for Judy. Sigh.

      I meant Albert who had been suppressing his true feelings. He acted like a protective big brother to Candy but he had actually fallen in love. Yet, he put that aside and tried leading her back to Terry.

      You’re right!! Judy married her benefactor (because Jervis wasn’t her guardian in the book). This sequel focused on the orphanage and Sallie was the main character. But through her letters we know what happened to Judy and Jervis as a happily married couple.

      You’re right about it was obvious whom Candy married… I was told some Terry fans hated “Daddy-Long-Legs” 😉

    • Reeka says:

      Yes, QuevivaCandy, you’re right. Too many similar story lines between DLL and CC. They both even shared the same sentiment about not wanting to leave their spouse. In CC, it was Anohito who didn’t want Candy leaving his side. I don’t know, but this and the narration that Anohito was coming home after dark and Candy said to herself how she didn’t hear him coming home, … for me it’s another clues that Anohito was Albert. I mean, I couldn’t imagine that happened for Terry, a famous and busy actor. It’s hard for him to tag along his family to anywhere his troops going. And I guess you couldn’t predict when an actor came home everyday, right?

      🙂

      • Ms Puddle says:

        I might re-read the sequel because some parts I had missed when reading it the first time… I suspected the Scottish character had feelings but he had deliberately hidden that and acted cool and mean sometimes. Anyway, in “Dear Enemy” it seems that Jervis didn’t want Judy to leave him either (it went both ways). Because Sallie complained many times why Judy couldn’t leave his side longer… LOL.
        Honestly… the more we understand CCFS the less likely Terry could be Anohito… 😉

  3. EnakaT says:

    That’s the Judy-Jervis wedding I was talking about back in the recent posts. In Anime version. I knew it. Anyway, it does sound interesting, and I can’t wait to read DLL novel, and watch anime later. Thanks for the update.

    Have a good week.

  1. January 19, 2019

    […] not read these stories, you may want to read my previous posts about them, Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. No matter what, don’t jump to conclusions merely because of some ungrounded rumours spread […]

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