How Does Lloyd Jones Represent Grace's Funeral in 'Mr Pip'?

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'How does Lloyd Jones represent Grace's funeral?' In my personal opinion, I think that the villagers find use this as a moment to reflect on Mrs.Watts' life. Eventhough it seems to us as if no one really knew a lot about this lady, it actually appears that Grace shared a past with most of the islanders. We know this as during Grace's funeral, many of the witnessing islanders recall memories of their childhood with Grace which comes as a shock to us as readers as throughout the novel, we were lead to believe that no one knew much about this character eventhough this does not appear to be the case. This is probably because the person telling us the story is Matilda which means that we see everything through her eyes and this was the way Matilda, as a child, saw Grace. Another thing that stands out to me when I read this paragraph is how everyone's view on Mrs.Watts seemed to change after her death. It seemed as if all the thoughts that they had previously on her seemed to disapear as they remembered the other Grace that they knew and what they have lost. They say tell Mr.Watts things like 'Your Grace was the cleverest of all us girls' which shows how this point as before, the people would have not had said something such as this. It also shows how eventhough most of them do not particularly like Mr. Watts after what happened to then, they still tried to cheer him up as during these tough times, they had to stick together as the have nothing but eachother. During the chapter, it seems that Mr. Watts' reaction is grateful. By this I mean that Mr. Watts appreciates what the villagers are doing to help him but also, it seems to me that eventhough he is trying to show his appreciation, he still can't hide the fact that he lost his wife. A quote in the book which seems to show the mix of emotions he is feeling is and how much the children and adults wanted to help him

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