Doctor Sloper, her emotionally distant father, lives with Catherine in 1840s New York, where she is plain and uninteresting as can be. It's as though her days are vacant, with nothing but needlepoint to occupy them. Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with an eye on the spinster's heart and a sizable estate, enters the story.
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Doctor Sloper, her emotionally distant father, lives with Catherine in 1840s New York, where she is plain and uninteresting as can be. It's as though her days are vacant, with nothing but needlepoint to occupy them. Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with an eye on the spinster's heart and a sizable estate, enters the story.
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