V.V.2.--Rachel & things

[Don Corathers]

Thing says: 

I don't know if we noted that Rachel Owlglass is quite
different now. The car, the MG, the bragging about the men
she dated, her trivial suburban life, now seem almost the
story of a different character. 

(snip)


We did not, and of course she is. Nice observation. 

"She kept on the grating just to show off. To herself." Six months earlier she was making ostentatious displays of her various acquisitions to show off to anybody who would listen.

What about, since you brought up the scene, that "brave sensual trudging"? Is it that hitting the X's of the grating is causing her to walk in a peculiar way? Is she really in some sense "nose-deep in snowdrifts, and yet on route to meet a lover," or is it just that she happens to walk that way?

Don