Mollie’s job as a mother is wrapped up in the child.
P. 145 → Ainslie realizes he can influence the women if he wanted to.
P. 150 → He precedes that Alan is what Mollie has all her life. He also realizes that he can manipulate her life if he wants to. But it’s a passing shadow of his outlook. He just wants Alan.
P. 220 → Mollie asks for assistance from Margaret, she doesn’t know what to do. When Alan is in the hospital, Ainslie has more involvement in Alan, and Mollie realizes it.
P. 221 → Margaret’s Husband can manipulate Mollie, and therefore Margaret can also read her weaknesses and proceeds to encourage Mollie to accept Camier and go to France with him with Alan.
P. 222 → Mollie accepts Margaret’s suggestion. Margaret has the grace to feel the shame for doing that. Both Margaret and Ainslie can manipulate someone. For both Ainslie and Margaret, the common is that they both can manipulate someone.
Ainslie and Mollie have a common ethnic background. This common helps to account semi sexual attraction that Ainslie sometimes feels.
P. 46 → the weird semi sexual feeling that makes him wanting for his wife’s body but Mollie’s eyes. Her eyes are familiar to him of his “own people”
P.205 →Mollie’s eye reminds him of painful dividing difference between his background and his wife’s background. Her eyes also remind him of his mother.
P.45 →Margaret’s eye lack of smock and mystery, that absents of smock and mystery represents for Ainslie the differences in their ethnic background. Margaret herself is aware of this connection shared by Ainslie and Mollie.
P. 40 → Different cultural background between Ainslie and Margaret. Ainslie have a poor background, Margaret on the other hand is rich.
P. 40 – 41 → the most difference is that there’s an estrangement between two ethnic backgrounds.