Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster5/10/2023 She even tells him about Jimmy McBride, a boy she's come to like. She writes about her struggles in school and about her wonderful trip to Lock Willow farm for the summer. Throughout her schooling, Judy faithfully writes Daddy-Long-Legs, sharing with him the good and the bad. Daddy-Long-Legs is the nickname she gives the mysterious trustee. So, a wealthy trustee gives Judy a chance for college with only one requirement that she writes to him monthly about her education and life. Because her high school grades (particularly her writing) are very high, she gets to go to college. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster shows the importance of education and values through letters involving Jerusha Abbot (Judy) and a benevolent and wealthy trustee.ĭaddy-Long-Legs begins with Jerusha as a seventeen year old in an orphanage asylum.
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