長腿叔叔Daddy Long Legs故事

故事大綱: 生長在孤兒院，連自己雙親的名字都不知道的茱蒂，
是一個有朝氣而且意志堅定的女孩。
在她13歲的那一年，一位營運委員在偶然間讀到她所寫的悔過書，
因而得到了進入住宿制高中就讀的機會。
茱蒂稱這一位改變自己人生的恩人為「長腿叔叔」。

茱蒂和這位不願意透漏自己真實姓名的慈善家約定，每個月必須寫給他一封信。
茱蒂開始了住宿生活，對她而言，紐約的生活是一連串的驚奇。
再加上住在同寢室的莎莉和茱莉亞，都是出身於上流社會，
和茱蒂的處境就彷彿天與地的差別。
感受這種文化差異而覺得沮喪的茱蒂，唯一的安慰便是寫信給長腿叔叔。

在茱莉亞的介紹之下，茱蒂認識了茱莉亞的叔叔賈維斯，
賈維斯雖然是個有錢人，卻一點架子都沒有，茱蒂漸漸地喜歡上了賈維斯。
另一方面，賈維斯發現自己一時興起所提供的獎學金對象竟是茱蒂，
覺得非常驚訝。但是事到如今，賈維斯也難以說出真相，只好繼續隱瞞。
3年轉眼就過去了，茱蒂出落得越來越美麗，
雖然她對賈維斯的感情越來越強烈，但她也決定了要放棄這份感情。

茱蒂在畢業典禮的當天，聽到賈維斯病倒的消息，
忍住想立刻飛奔過去的念頭直到典禮結束。
就在這時，葛利格斯先生帶來長腿先生病危的消息
茱蒂非常的驚訝，急忙趕往長腿叔叔所居住的紐約。

茱蒂終於知道了賈維斯叔叔和長腿叔叔其實是同一個
同使她也看到許多寫給自己的信，確認了彼此的心意 。


別名:茱迪(Judy)

Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity. They were badly fed and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. Jerusha's unusual name was selected by the headmistress off a grave stone. Her surname was selected out of the phone book. At the age of 18, she has finished her education and is at loose ends, still working in the dormitories at the institution where she was brought up.

When the asylum's trustees make their monthly visit, Jerusha is informed by the asylum's dour headmistress that one of the trustees has offered to pay her way through college. He has spoken to her former teachers and knows that she is an excellent writer. He will pay her tuition and also give her a generous monthly allowance. Jerusha must write him a monthly letter, because he believes that letter-writing is important to the development of a writer. However, she will never know his identity, and he will never reply.

Jerusha catches a glimpse of the shadow of her benefactor from the back, and knows he is a tall long-legged man. Because of this, she jokingly calls him Daddy Long-Legs. She attends a "girls' college," but the name and location are never identified. Men from Princeton University are frequently mentioned as dates, so it might be assumed that her college is one of the Seven Sisters. It was certainly on the East Coast. She illustrates her letters with childlike line drawings, also created by Jean Webster.

The book chronicles Jerusha's educational, personal, and social growth. One of the first things she does at college is to change her name to "Judy." She designs a rigorous reading program for herself and struggles to gain the basic cultural knowledge to which she, growing up in the bleak environment of the orphan asylum, was never exposed.

At the end of the book, of course, the identity of 'Daddy Long-Legs' is revealed.

生長在孤兒院，連自己雙親的名字都不知道的茱蒂，
是一個有朝氣而且意志堅定的女孩。
在她13歲的那一年，一位營運委員在偶然間讀到她所寫的悔過書，
因而得到了進入住宿制高中就讀的機會。
茱蒂稱這一位改變自己人生的恩人為「長腿叔叔」。

茱蒂和這位不願意透漏自己真實姓名的慈善家約定，每個月必須寫給他一封信。
茱蒂開始了住宿生活，對她而言，紐約的生活是一連串的驚奇。
再加上住在同寢室的莎莉和茱莉亞，都是出身於上流社會，
和茱蒂的處境就彷彿天與地的差別。
感受這種文化差異而覺得沮喪的茱蒂，唯一的安慰便是寫信給長腿叔叔。

在茱莉亞的介紹之下，茱蒂認識了茱莉亞的叔叔賈維斯，
賈維斯雖然是個有錢人，卻一點架子都沒有，茱蒂漸漸地喜歡上了賈維斯。
另一方面，賈維斯發現自己一時興起所提供的獎學金對象竟是茱蒂，
覺得非常驚訝。但是事到如今，賈維斯也難以說出真相，只好繼續隱瞞。
3年轉眼就過去了，茱蒂出落得越來越美麗，
雖然她對賈維斯的感情越來越強烈，但她也決定了要放棄這份感情。

茱蒂在畢業典禮的當天，聽到賈維斯病倒的消息，
忍住想立刻飛奔過去的念頭直到典禮結束。
就在這時，葛利格斯先生帶來長腿先生病危的消息
茱蒂非常的驚訝，急忙趕往長腿叔叔所居住的紐約。

茱蒂終於知道了賈維斯叔叔和長腿叔叔其實是同一個
同使她也看到許多寫給自己的信，確認了彼此的心意 。

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