> Most of the value was provided by the primer itself. That's not what I took away from it. Of the three girls initially tutored by the Primer, for one the rea

> Most of the value was provided by the primer itself. That's not what I took away from it. Of the three girls initially tutored by the Primer, for one the reading was done by many different actresses while for the other it was done by her father in a dreamlike mid-coital state. Neither of these two turned out the queen of all they surveyed the way Nell did. My take away was that what mattered was the human connection, that there had to be an adult who cared what happened even if she didn't have much ability to help, that gave the protagonist the strength to do what she did in the end.