‘I dreamed I was sad and sometimes cried. She blamed God for that in her attic she made an enemy of God because all she had left was the echo of her cousin’s voice-the way he had of pronouncing certain words, the timbre of his intonations, the images his voice conveyed. It’s inevitable that under these warped values life is at once tragic and ceaselessly mysterious. After Robert dies, she clings to a refuge in which her love affair-more a beloved companionship, in which Robert reads to her Turgenev’s books-could spread itself, a safe house offering a sanctuary from her misery. A grievous mistake it is to have married Elmer, she indulges in the fond memories of her invalid cousin who has been in love with her back in school. Mary Louise’s unhappiness, unbeknownst to neither her family nor her husband, is beyond the unconsummated marriage. She had come to terms with Elmer and his sisters, she no longer feared the wrath of the two women’s tongues and long ago she had ceased to wish to please her husband.” (20, 138) She has married Elmer for gain but what she dreams of before the marriage has not come true: being looked up to in town, being at liberty with money to spare for the clothes she covets, being the co-owner of Elmer’s house, and being deferred to at the shop. But Elmer’s two sisters, both spinsters, look upon the marriage with displeasure from the beginning for there is a flightiness in Mary Louise’s eyes that fails to convince them she will be a responsible wife.Ĭonversing with her on later occasions, she was confirmed in this opinion, ad came to realize-to her great disappointment-that her optimism at the time of the wedding had been misplaced. Other than the difference in age and generation (Mary Louise is 14 years younger), nothing about the alliance shall cause undue apprehension. In 1955, Mary Louise Dallon, an Irish country girl raised on a farm, marries above her means to Elmer Quarry, a wealthy draper whose family has enjoyed generations of mercantile fortune. She had married out of impatience and boredom, and had been handed both back with interest added. ” She wasn’t worth anyone’s love, she said. Note: Reading Turgenev is published under the title Two Lives, a volume of two novels. To Kill a Mockingbir… on To Kill A Mockingbird…ĭeanna Friel on The Price of Salt (Carol… The HKIA brings Hong… on Island and Peninsula 島與半… The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrellĭiana Thoughts on… on The Luminaries – E… The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguroġ8. Death with Interruptions, Jose Saramagoġ5. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevskyħ. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail BulgakovĤ.
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