He knows so much (if indeed he hasn't fabricated everything) because the details of Emily Grierson's life have been passed to him along a sloppy bucket-brigade of gossip, making him all the more unreliable and all the more suspect as he passes along to us the observations and suspicions of his fellow townspeople. ... When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, "She will maw him." ...
Brett is an extremely passionate woman but is denied the first man she feels true love and admiration for. ... After the departure of their first meeting, Jake feels miserable: "This was Brett, that I had felt like crying about. ... Since his war experience, Jake has attempted to reshape the man he is and the first step in doing this is to accept his impotence. ... In his first scene in the novel, Mike cannot stop commenting and eliciting comments on Brett's beauty: ""I say Brett, you are a lovely piece. ... Cohn is immature in his idealization of Brett's beauty, as he falls...
[c] Don't make a long-term commitment during the first phase of the relationship. ... Don't, however, commit yourself to the person until after the first stage of the relationship has passed and you are each seeing each other more clearly.... The first is if she feels sorry for a man and worries about how he will survive without her. 2-She feels that she just wants to love him and doesn't care about what she gets in return. ... Before acting on this chemistry, she needs to first move through the first three stages of dating. 7-She feels eager to accommodate and please ...
