She dies.I have never been so relieved to reach the end of a book! It’s not that I didn’t enjoy Clarissa, but when I embarked on JoAnn and Terri’s year-long group read back in January, I don’t think I fully understood what a huge commitment it was going to be. She asks for her family's forgiveness, which they refuse, and she settles her will. She writes that she's accepted Death as her suitor. There, she becomes ill and begins to waste away. Belford bails Clarissa out and finds her a lodging. Sinclair's tell the police that Clarissa owes them money and the police arrest her. While in hiding, Clarissa discovers all of the lies Lovelace has told and word gets out to his cousins and family. After suffering a fever, she escapes the brothel dressed as a maid. Lovelace says he'll marry her, but Clarissa refuses. She wants to go to a mental hospital, but Lovelace won't let her. When Clarissa wakes up, she's temporarily insane, and her letters are rambling. Sinclair drugs Clarissa and Lovelace rapes her. Prostitutes posing as Lovelace's cousins escort Clarissa back to the brothel in London. He tells them that he's Clarissa's husband and begins intercepting and changing Anna's letters. He soon reveals himself in front of the other lodgers.
Lovelace dresses as an old man and gets a room at the lodging house. Anna suggests that Clarissa marry Lovelace so she won't be ruined.Ĭlarissa hides at a lodging house, but Lovelace's servant finds her.
His cousins aren't present, making the situation morally questionable. Lovelace takes her to his lodgings in St. When she meets with Lovelace to let him know, a servant paid off by Lovelace distracts the family and Lovelace whisks Clarissa away under the pretense of rescuing her. She soon changes her mind, however, and decides to marry Roger. Clarissa's Aunt Hervey informs her that she'll be marrying Roger soon and Clarissa tells Lovelace to enact his plan but to send his female cousins to preserve her reputation. When Clarissa tells Lovelace of her family's intentions, he begins concocting a plan for Clarissa to run away with him and stay at his family's home. When pleading and bribing fails to change Clarissa's mind, the family tells her they will send her away to her uncle's house where she'll be forced to marry Roger anyway. Solmes is an old, ugly, rich man, and Clarissa refuses him. Meanwhile, Clarissa's family has chosen Roger Solmes as her suitor.
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