How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"It is a kind of love that comes to children before they know its meaning. In England it comes when you are almost men; I think I like that. It is better to have that kind of love for another boy than for a girl. Alex you see had it for a girl, for his wife." (1.4.229)
Is Cara correct in comparing Lord Marchmain’s love for his wife with Charles’s love for Sebastian? Does Charles ever come to despise Sebastian the way Lord Marchmain does his wife? Or is he spared this emotion because Sebastian is another man?
Quote #5
She had made a preposterous little picture of the kind of man who would do […] and she was in search of him when she met me at the railway station. I was not her man. She told me as much, without a word, when she took the cigarette from my lips. (1.7.18)
Julia isn’t capable of loving Charles when she first meets him because she hasn’t grown up yet. It’s not until she realizes how silly her preconceptions about love and marriage are, and how absurd her prerequisites for a husband, that she becomes an adult.
Quote #6
All this I learned about Julia, bit by bit, from the stories she told, from guesswork, knowing her, from what her friends said, from the odd expressions she now and then let slip, from occasional dreamy monologues of reminiscences; I learned it as one does learn the former – as it seems at the time, the preparatory – life of a woman one loves, so that one thinks of oneself as part of it, directing it by devious ways, towards oneself. (1.7.19)
Notice how Charles hints at his eventual love affair with Julia before we are told of it explicitly.