{"id":1214,"date":"2018-09-18T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:33:03","slug":"its-not-your-fault-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2018\/09\/18\/its-not-your-fault-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"it’s not your fault is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe most reliable Securicor, church sanctioned and state approved, is marriage.\u00a0 Swear you\u2019ll cleave only unto him or her and magically that\u2019s what will happen.\u00a0 Adultery is as much about disillusionment as it is about sex.\u00a0 The charm didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 You paid all that money, ate the cake, and it didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 It\u2019s not your<\/em> fault is it?\u201d (78)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the entirety of the novel, the narrator never attempted to avoid blame; there was a sense of being at fault in the main character. However, in this moment, they blame someone or something else. Indeed, the narrator argues marriage created adultery, when they say adultery is as \u201cmuch about disillusionment\u201d (78). In other words, they are saying adultery itself is the disillusionment to marriage. In the context of the passage, the narrator is arguing marriage cannot work, because it is held up to be the end all be all. In their sarcastic fashion, they state if you make your vows to remain faithful to that person, then \u201cmagically that\u2019s what will happen,\u201d referencing the supposed result of marrying someone (78). There is also a sense of doing all one can, putting even less blame on Louise and the narrator. After all, she and Elgin paid \u201call that money, ate the cake, and [yet] it didn\u2019t work\u201d (78). Louise put all of this time and effort into her marriage, yet she still fell for the narrator. How then, the narrator argues, can it be either of their faults for falling in love with each other? Louise\u2019s marriage to Elgin was bound to fail, because they both attempted to follow what the state and church ordered.<\/p>\n

The passage, therefore, is about the narrator attempting to put the blame on something else, to ease the guilt of committing adultery. In relation to the text as a whole, this is the crux of the change in the relationship between Louise and the narrator, because there is now a hint of the narrator\u2019s own hesitation to their relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe most reliable Securicor, church sanctioned and state approved, is marriage.\u00a0 Swear you\u2019ll cleave only unto him or her and magically that\u2019s what will happen.\u00a0 Adultery is as much about disillusionment as it is about sex.\u00a0 The charm didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 You paid all that money, ate the cake, and it didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 It\u2019s not your … Continue reading it’s not your fault is it?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}