The Red Room Versions of Reality Quotes

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Quote #10

I rolled my eyes into the corner, and saw the old woman, no longer abstracted, pouring out some drops of medicine from a little blue phial into a glass. (47)

The narrator sees the old woman "no longer abstracted." Now that it’s day and the dreadful experience is behind him, he can recognize that she’s not quite so creepy or abnormal as she appeared the night before. It might also help that she’s taking care of him. In any case, this remark makes us wonder how much of what he described was "accurate," and how much was produced by his state of mind.