At first Irene seemed to be caught in a
situation that she didn’t want to be in, a moment that once it was over, it was
done. When she was sitting with Clare and her racist husband, it was a situation
where she seemed to be protecting herself and the other women that were
present. However, through Part II, I feel Irene becomes selfish and
controlling, at the end of chapter one in this section it says, “It was only
that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so
with things as they were, and never acknowledging that, though she did want him
to be happy, it was only in her own way and by some plan of hers for him that
she truly desired him to be so.” Throughout this part of the novel, Irene is
continually pushing for attention from her husband, and her sons. When she
doesn’t get it, she turns to Clare. Even though Clare’s presence bothers her,
and she does not enjoy it, she keeps her around for her own selfish behavior. I
almost felt like she was tempting her husband to an affair, with the question about
Clare’s beauty, trying to stir up drama in her own life.
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