Seminary Minion Corner

"I am sure he had never been in love in his life. He had married on the rebound from the rotten time he had in college, and Frances took him on the rebound from his discovery that he had not been everything to his first wife." Jake throughout the book is hard, stubborn, and skeptical. He silently and verbally judges relationships, writing the majority off as loveless or dysfunctional. This heavily contrast with his behavior with Brett. "'It's funny,' I said. 'It's very funny. And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love.' 'Do you think so?' her eyes looked flat again. 'I don't mean fun that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling.' 'No,' she said. 'I think it's hell on earth.'" He is mopey and almost needy. "Don't you love me?" he asks Brett, looking for condolences after she refuses to kiss him. But outside, he almost adopts her attitude towards love. Brett took on that attitude afte...

      In Mrs. Dalloway, Peter continuously judges and criticizes Clarissa, from the phrasing she uses to her hosting of frivolous events. "Heavenly to see you. She must say so!" He folded the paper; pushed it away; nothing would induce him to read it again!  To get that letter to him by six o'clock she must have sat down and written it directly he left her; stamped it; sent somebody to the post. It was, as people say, very like her. He was angry and frustrated at her noble and polite society sensibilities, something that is not reflected when it comes to Sally She and Peter had settled down together. They were talking: it seemed so familiar--that they should be talking. They would discuss the past.  And Sally used to be in rags and tatters. She had pawned her grandmother's ring which Marie Antoinette had given her great-grandfather to come to Bourton. He sees her departure from her longstanding beliefs, her joining of a class that she long scorned as more of a s...