The Fruit of the Tree

In fact, her insistence on luxury, which is funded by the profit from the mills, thwarts his desire to use her controlling interest to make significant changes. The couple encounters Justine, who knew Bessy in school.

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When John is abroad, Bessy has an accident while riding her horse. Paralyzed, in constant pain, and slowly dying, Bessy is attended by a physician who advances his career with the technological feat of keeping Bessy alive, ostensibly until her husband and her father arrive to say their goodbyes. When Bessy begs Justine to let her die, Justine secretly gives her a fatal dose of morphine, an act that the physician suspects. The narrative skips ahead again to over a year later when Amherst, who has inherited the mills from Bessy, invites her family to celebrate the opening of an emergency hospital he has built in the mill town.

Their shared social and intellectual interests develop into love, and they marry. The physician who had cared for Bessy and who had, earlier, asked Justine to marry him, had developed an addiction, one that had begun while he was treating Bessy.

Beginning to sink into financial ruin, he blackmails Justine. Eventually, Amherst finds out that Justine killed Bessie with morphine and, horrified, rejects her. She will remove herself from their lives if he allows Amherst to continue his work at the mills.

Justine is reunited with Amherst when he celebrates the opening of a gymnasium for the mill workers, a project he credits Bessy with having designed. Commentary This novel offers two important elements to scholars and educators of literature and medicine: The character Justine is introduced as a professional nurse at the beginning of the novel and is described in uniform and as combining a cool, controlled tone of voice and demeanor with a sympathetic touch.

She next appears in street clothes, willing to break the professional code of confidentiality to talk openly with Amherst about an injured mill worker because she is passionately concerned about his wellbeing. In this capacity, she wears not a uniform but the genteel self-effacement of a dependent single female disguised as a family friend.

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