美国姑娘玛丽·托德出身显赫,祖父当过将军和州长,父亲是银行行长。因为先天性头疼病,玛丽从小就冲动、易怒,脾气坏到没朋友。7岁,母亲去世,玛丽的心上多了道伤痕,而继母的到来,又将伤痕生生撕裂。无法忍受父亲的爱被继母和继母的孩子分去,她的坏脾气愈演愈烈,总把家里搞得鸡飞狗跳。父亲没办法,便把她送去外祖母家。一天,外祖母又被玛丽气得忍无可忍,批评她:“玛丽,你脾气这么坏,将来能做 American girl Mary Todd was born prominent, his grandfather as a general and governor, his father is the bank president. Because of a congenital headache, Mary was impulsive, irritable, temper-naive to no friend. At the age of seven, her mother died, Mary’s heart wounds, but the arrival of stepmother, and the sclerosis of life and tears. Intolerable father’s love is divided by the stepmother and stepmother’s children, her bad temper intensified, always make jittery. My father had no alternative but to send her to her grandmother’s house. One day, my grandmother was too angry with Mary and criticized her: ”Mary, you are so temper that you can do it in the future