How we cite our quotes: (Part.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Jeannine, out of place, puts her hands over her ears and shuts her eyes on a farm on Whileaway, sitting at the trestle-table under the trees where everybody is eating. I'm not here. I'm not here. Chilia Ysayeson's youngest has taken a fancy to the newcomer; Jeannine sees big eyes, big breasts, big shoulders, thick lips, all that grossness. (1.14.1)
When it comes to looks, Jeannine is a fairly shallow person, we know, but it's striking that one of the things that disturbs her most about Whileaway is its ethnic diversity.
Quote #5
I was housed with her for six and a half months in a hotel suite ordinarily used to entertain visiting diplomats. I put shoes on that woman's feet. I had fulfilled one of my dreams—to show Manhattan to a foreigner. (3.1.17)
While Janet is in her world, Joanna gets to play guide and host. Aside from showing Janet around the city, what does Joanna teach her about Earth?
Quote #6
"My child," she said gently, "you must understand. I'm far from home; I want to keep myself cheerful, eh? And about this men thing, you must remember that to me they are a particularly foreign species; one can make love with a dog, yes? But not with something so unfortunately close to oneself. You see how I can feel this way?" (3.1.31)
This moment is one of the novel's little jokes, but what's clear is that, to Janet, the men of Joanna's and Jeannine's worlds seem totally alien. At the same time, they also seem eerily familiar, and Janet finds this disturbing. If Sigmund Freud were around, he'd call this an example of the uncanny. Bottom line: dudes weird her out.