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Miss Churm is a working-class woman who works as a model for the artist. She is plain, freckled, and uneducated, although she is clever and witty. She is the artist’s ideal model, as she can represent any number of types, no matter how different these personages may be from who she is. Miss Churm is used in the story to symbolize the working class in late 19th century England, and her skill as a model represents the value of adaptability and artifice (as opposed to an adherence to strict reality) in art. She develops a strong dislike for Mrs. Monarch and Major Monarch, whom she quickly comes to view as rivals.
Miss Churm Quotes in The Real Thing
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I scarcely ever saw [Miss Churm] come in without thinking afresh how odd it was that, being so little in herself, she should yet be so much in others. She was meagre little Miss Churm, but she was an ample heroine of romance. She was only a freckled cockney, but she could represent everything, from a fine lady to a shepherdess (…)
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After I had drawn Mrs. Monarch a dozen times I perceived more clearly than before that the value of such a model as Miss Churm resided precisely in the fact that she had no positive stamp, combined of course with the other fact that what she did have was a curious and inexplicable talent for imitation. Her usual appearance was like a curtain which she could draw up at request for a capital performance.
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Miss Churm Quotes in The Real Thing
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I scarcely ever saw [Miss Churm] come in without thinking afresh how odd it was that, being so little in herself, she should yet be so much in others. She was meagre little Miss Churm, but she was an ample heroine of romance. She was only a freckled cockney, but she could represent everything, from a fine lady to a shepherdess (…)
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After I had drawn Mrs. Monarch a dozen times I perceived more clearly than before that the value of such a model as Miss Churm resided precisely in the fact that she had no positive stamp, combined of course with the other fact that what she did have was a curious and inexplicable talent for imitation. Her usual appearance was like a curtain which she could draw up at request for a capital performance.
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