How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"I understand what's going on in your mind," Juliana said. To her it was the old and familiar expression on a man's face, but it did not upset her to see it here. She no longer felt as she once had. "The Gestapo file said you're attracted to women like me." (15.97)
We've seen a lot of guys look or think about Juliana in this book, from Frank to the truck drivers—and now, to Hawthorne. But we pulled this quote not because it shows how many men treat Juliana as a pretty face (rather than as a source of enlightenment); we pulled it because of how it paints Hawthorne as a guy whose desires can be catalogued. (In this case, by the German secret police.) Here's the flip-side of stereotyping. When Hawthorne thinks about women only in terms of sex and attraction, his own desires can be catalogued. Who knows, maybe next time the SS will send a beautiful woman assassin?