charactersketch of jerusha abott from daddy long legs..
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Jerusha abott is a poor, teenaged orphan who has spent her life at the John grier home. An unnamed benefactor decides to send her to college to be educated for the writer. From a distance, Jerusha gets a brief glimpse of this mysterious benefactor as he leaves the orphanage. She notices his height and nicknames him 'Daddy long Legs'. Daddy's only requirement for providing her scholarship is that she writes him a letter for a month. However he will not write her back and reveal his identity. Although she knows that he will never responds to her letters,she grows more and more curios about this elusive and kindly "old" gentleman. Meanwhile another relationship begins to develop the Jerusha life with Jervis Pendletan. Through her monthly letters with daddy and her growing intimacy with Jervis, Jerusha's letter chronicle her growth from the doe - eyed orphan girl to strong, independent woman. In the end jerusha also finds love with a man she never excepted to enter her life.