Boarders
Henry Park recounts, “I thought I was keeping my work secret from her, an effort that was getting easier all the time. Or so it seemed. We were hardly talking then, sitting down to our evening meal like boarders in a rooming house, reciting the usual, drawn-out exchanges of familiar news, bits of the day. When she asked after my latest assignment I answered that it was sensitive and evolving but going well, and after a pause Lelia said t down to her cold plate, Oh Good, it’s the Henryspeak." The rhetoric boarders depict the lack of intimate talks between the couple. Their discussions are limited to familiar topics but do not go beyond that. Henry avoids the intimate talks for they would expose the lies he has been telling Lelia.
Guilty
Henry Park recalls, “I was immediately drawn to her. I liked the way she moved. I know how men will say this, to describe that womanly affect they find ineffable. I am as guilty as them all. There is a hurt that pinches your throat or chest when you look.” The metaphorical guilty underscores that Lelia awakened his desire when he first perceived her. Park compares his guilt to other men’s to underscore that they too would have been absolutely been fascinated by Lelia.
Evolutionist
Henry Park narrates, “Later, and throughout our marriage, Lelia liked to speak of those first days. She would trace us back to that beginning time like some evolutionist. Maybe she thought certain clues would arise from the primordial pool to make sense of our eventual difficulties. Were there traits or habits of personality that we had too readily dismissed, too easily obliged?” The emblematic evolutionist accentuates Lelia’s tendency to track the changes in the matrimony as an evolutionist explores alterations in species. Obviously, their relationship has changed considerably for it to warrant an ‘evolutionary’ analysis. Assessing their personalities is contributory in identifying the foundation of the changes.
