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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: Ruby are just going to study to be teachers. That is the height
of their ambition. Ruby says she will only teach for two years
after she gets through, and then she intends to be married. Jane
says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never
marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband
won't pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the
egg and butter money. I expect Jane speaks from mournful
experience, for Mrs. Lynde says that her father is a perfect old
crank, and meaner than second skimmings. Josie Pye says she is
just going to college for education's sake, because she won't
have to earn her own living; she says of course it is different
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