Then it became a different head, with a flowing beard, covered with dirt belonging seemingly to a dead man who was coming back to life (13). A picture of a face in the newspaper reminds her of her dream the previous night since the face in her dream was the same face as in the newspaper, yet she can’t recall when she may have seen it (14), possibly in a previous newspaper? The face, or the head rather, was twisted off the man’s body. It seems Mark is preoccupied with his work at the college. She is somewhat of an intellectual and has been working on a doctorate thesis on Donne. There is much housework to do which she doesn’t find all that intellectually stimulating. She is recently married to Mark and struggling to adjust to married life. Jane Studdock is introduced in sentence one (page 11 – I always love it when a book starts on page 11 I start out feeling like I’m so far ahead) and will be the primary protagonist.
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