Status Updates From The Wreck

"...but, always, I feel the lurking horror of an ending...is this the bind of great good fortune, I wondered? Does joy come parcelled up with the knowledge of the end of joy?"

Why do we have a "man of the people", but no female equivalent, asks the protagonist? "People, I suspect, are largely suspicious of a talkative, gregarious woman; they favour the demure and the moderate. Even the very beautiful become questionable if they're considered garrulous or especially extroverted."