"The secondhand man can't really understand Miss Martha, despite his desire to understand."
This quote sounds very poetic and thus stood out to me during the second half of the reading. I can relate because there are some things that happen that I want to understand but cannot, in this novel and in life. The short sentences again set up a fast pace for the reading and it all sort of flies by and is over before you know it. In the first half, it made the narrator's voice seem child-like and naive. In this half, perhaps because she has become more of an adult in her lifestyle--marriage, pregnancy--she no longer sounds like a child to me. Instead, the short sentences give me a sense of dettatchment and apathy, like she is distant from what is going on around her. Another reason why I like this quote is because it reminds me of her, in a way that she really wants to understand everything around her but is unable to fully.
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