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"...her eyes were full of consternation and resentment, like those of a woman who, at the end of her time, at length realizes that however luxurious the nursing home, and however well-paid the doctor, her labor is inevitable; and the lift and fall of the ship came regularly as the pains of child birth."
I wonder, is there a feminist analysis of this novel? Charles so often shows up as misogynous.
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I wonder, is there a feminist analysis of this novel? Charles so often shows up as misogynous.
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Rex...acquired instead the hoarse, loud tone that was common to all his friends, as though their voices were perpetually strained to make themselves heard above a crowd, as though, with youth forsaking them, there was no time to wait the opportunity to speak, no time to listen, no time to reply; time for a laugh -- a throaty, mirthless laugh, the base currency of goodwill.
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