In the passage on page 180 the narrator says, \u201cI decided to try out<\/i> the cafe, out<\/i> of masochism, out<\/i> of habit, out<\/i> of hope. I thought it might comfort<\/b> me, although I noticed how little comfort<\/b> was to be got from familiar things,\u201d \u00a0(Winterson).<\/p>\n
This might be a stretch to what the author is trying to say but, I think this greatly helps provide a better point to a comment I made in class. I talked briefly about how I thought that relationships, especially marriage, should not be content. This is not to say that the marriage has to be nothing but trials of the heart or on one side the spectrum (happy or sad). I think a marriage or relationship should be made out of things that make you something more than just content. The narrator talks about their relationship with Jacqueline as one of content or plateaued feeling, and I think that\u2019s why it was so hard for them to be as emotionally invested. Relationships, of any sort, are supposed to help a person grow, or come to a new understanding in their life. The narrator\u2019s relationship with Jacqueline was not helping them grow in any sort of way. However they were comforted by the familiarity with being with her. And even in that familiarity, can we even say that is comfort? They knew she would be there, but they were never comforted by her presence. With Louise, however, there was comfort, and as we see throughout the novel, nothing about there relationship is familiar. This is a new experience from the way Louise was upfront with Elign about the affair to the fact that the narrator left her. This relationship is comforting without it being familiar. The narrator has show growth and knowledge from this comforting unfamiliar experience.<\/p>\n
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