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What did Miss Honey expect Mr and Mrs Wormwood to be like?
Miss Honey assumes that all parents, including the Wormwoods, support their children, and that it will be easy to convince Mr and Mrs Wormwood that Matilda needs more support and to be moved up to a higher form. She thinks that Mr Wormwood must be intelligent because of his success as a car dealer, and that he and Mrs Wormwood will happily want her to tutor Matilda and help her advance.
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What does Mrs Wormwood mean by "You chose books. I chose looks"?
She means that she thinks women can either be attractive and romantically appealing to men or smart and ambitioius, but not both. (Students might note that...
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