"household" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 17th-century Delft, a servant girl is hired to work in the Vermeer household.
- Griet's arrival in the Vermeer household is a descent.
- Furthermore, although Griet sleeps in a dirt-floor cellar and must do the washing for the 10 members of the Vermeer household, her special duty gives her a distinction that no one else enjoys: not the painter's high-strung wife, Catharina, nor Maria, his mother-in-law, nor their children.
- Vermeer's rich patron Van Ruijven (Tom Wilkinson) notices Griet on a visit to the Vermeer household and asks the painter if he will give her up to him to work in his own house, a situation which ruined a previous girl.
- Griet, a sixteen-year old girl working as a servant in the Vermeer household, is the protagonist and narrator in the novel.
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