Justine Moritz

"Since you left us, but one change has taken place in out litle household. Do you remember on what occasion Justine Moritz entered our family? Probably you do not; I will relate her history, therefore, in a few words." (pg. 63) This portion of Elizabeth's letter kind of confused me. At first, I was wondering why she was explaining the history of their adopted sister to Victor. Later in the letter, she says, "Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours." There are a couple ways that I am trying to justify why Shelly did this. First, the most obvious reason I could come up with is to give the reader information about Justine. Elizabeth gives her background and everything. Also, I can see this as Elizabeth truly believeing that Victor's illness has probably caused him to forget important thingsin his life. Well, things that used to be important. Lastly, I could aslo see Elizabeth telling this story to be sarcastic and rub it in that he hasn't been home in forever so he probably doesn't remember much of home and the people there. Personally, I think that Elizabeth cares about Victor too much and that she was seriously concerned about his health so she explained the story to him. I can't see her being rude to him.