Losing family members of all ages was common in the mid-1800s. Did the characters move past loss differently than we do today?
Grief is individual and personal. I think the characters were realistic in their handling of grief and time wasn’t a factor.
I agree; grief is intensely personal. We all handle it differently.
yes, grief resilience differs by individual and the size the tragedy. immigrants that lived through the famine and witnessed the suffering had more difficulty than the ones that left before the famine.