- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This quote describes the first family dinner at Baldry Court after Chris’s return from the front. It is a good example of the interplay between appearance and reality in the story: what looks like a heartwarming reunion is actually overshadowed by grief and uncertainty. Even as Chris talks cheerfully to the women, he’s searching for the familiar comfort he can’t find in his family members and trying desperately to get his bearings. Observing this, Jenny feels heartbreak instead of the gratitude and joy she’d imagined for this homecoming. It’s especially heartrending to Jenny because of how much pride she’s taken…