Girl With a Pearl Earring

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16-year-old Griet lives with her family in a poorer quarter of Delft in the 17th century. Griet is employed as a maid in the painter Vermeer's house.
While in service there, the area where her family lives in is struck with the bubonic plague, and her sister dies. In this time, she begins to have romantic situations with Pieter, the butcher's son.
Gradually, Griet's relationship with Vermeer changes. He gets her to run errands and perform tasks for him, while keeping it secret from the rest of the house, particularly his sensitive wife. She assists Vermeer and she takes a model's place when she becomes ill.
At the same time, Vermeer's wealthy but licentious patron, van Ruijven, notices Griet and pressures Vermeer to paint them sitting together. Griet and Vermeer are reluctant to acquiesce, due to Griet's strict modesty and in light of a scandal surrounding the last time van Ruijven had been painted with a girl. Eventually, Vermeer compromises and just paints Griet by herself. However, he makes her wear his wife Catharina's pearl earrings. When Catharina discovers this, Griet is forced to leave.
Ten years later, long after Griet has married Pieter and settled into life as a mother and butcher's wife, she is called back to the house. Vermeer is dead, and his will had included a request that Griet receive the two pearl earrings, which she then pawns, finally settling the debt between the butcher shop and the Vermeers.One of the best-loved paintings in the world is a mystery. Who is the model and why has she been painted? What is she thinking as she stares out at us? Are her wide eyes and enigmatic half-smile innocent or seductive? And why is she wearing a pearl earring?Girl With a Pearl Earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps her in her household duties, but also attracts the painter's attention. Though different in upbringing, education and social standing, they have a similar way of looking at things. Vermeer slowly draws her into the world of his paintings - the still, luminous images of solitary women in domestic settings.
In contrast to her work in her master's studio, Griet must carve a place for herself in a chaotic Catholic household run by Vermeer's volatile wife Catharina, his shrewd mother-in-law Maria Thins, and their fiercely loyal maid Tanneke. Six children (and counting) fill out the household, dominated by six-year-old Cornelia, a mischievous girl who sees more than she should.
On the verge of womanhood, Griet also contends with the growing attentions both from a local butcher and from Vermeer's patron, the wealthy van Ruijven. And she has to find her way through this new and strange life outside the loving Protestant family she grew up in, now fragmented by accident and death.
As Griet becomes part of her master's work, their growing intimacy spreads disruption and jealousy within the ordered household and even - as the scandal seeps out - ripples in the world beyond.
1、我母亲没有告诉我，他们要来
2、对不起，葛丽叶，我应该
3、我和法兰还有阿格妮丝以前
4、我叫葛丽叶
5、这堆脏衣服在洗之前
6、卡萨琳娜望着衬衫
7、早晨起床
8、玛莉亚•辛似乎不介意
9、卡萨琳娜正坐在长椅上喂约翰
10、他看起来似乎有话要说
11、我渐渐在奥兰迪克的房子里找到自己的位置
12、你想看看里面吗？
13、当你看箱子里面的时候
14、画室依然空空荡荡
15、我听人说肉贩的儿子对你有意思
16、最后她忍不住挥舞着粉刷
17、为什么？
18、我看向他
1、 My mother did not tell me they were coming
2、I'm sorry, Griet. I would like to...
3、 Frans, Agnes, and I used to sit
4、My name is Griet
5、The laundry needed to soak
6、Catharina stared at the shirt
7、When I got up in the morning
8、Maria Thins seemed content to stand
9、Catharina was sitting on the bench
10、He looked as if he would say something
11、I began to find my place at the house
12、Do you want to look in it?
13、Does it please you that the map is gone
14、The studio remained empty
15、I have heard that the butcher's son
16、At last she waved the powder-brush
17、Why not?
18、I looked at him
19、On Sunday my mother joined us
20、I nervously wiped my hands on my apron
21、I did something his wife didn't like
22、He set a chair near his easel,
23、He did not work on the painting of me every day
24、I took up my candle
25、Maria Thins was standing next to the easel