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Quote #10
[…] bringing my fantasies into the real world frightened me very much. It's not that they were bad in themselves, but they were Unreal and therefore culpable; to try to make Real what was Unreal was to mistake the very nature of things; it was a sin not against conscience […] but against Reality, and of the two the latter is far more blasphemous. (208)
Joanna/the omniscient narrator never believes that her feelings for her Laura are morally wrong. All the same, she feels that it would be impossible to act on them. Is Joanna's society holding her back, or are her own fears to blame?