How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"You'd rather us live away from you, in some furnished room, than spend my perfectly good money for a house where we could be a family?" (2.7.165)
Susan and Oliver fight constantly over whether to use her money for the family. To Susan, this is a no-brainer: they've run out of other options at this point. To Oliver, however, this is a grave affront to his masculine ability to provide for his family. Talk about tension.
Quote #5
The admiration of two dozen magnetized eyeballs exhilarated her. She supposed it would be pleasant for men deprived of the company of ladies to see one. (4.2.93)
As Susan gets older, she becomes a lot more comfortable with her sexuality. It's not that she becomes a wild child or anything—she just realizes that she is prized by men simply because she's a beautiful woman. While this flies in the face of her feminist beliefs, Susan can't help but be excited by the realization.
Quote #6
She looked like a dog that [...] barked at a stone dog on a lawn, and been barked back at. In spite of that bass-baritone and that air of amused assurance, she is definitely female. (4.6.9)
Unlike his much-beloved grandma, Lyman doesn't have a feminist bone in his body. It often seems like he believes that women are naturally submissive, even though he loves his grandmother because she refused to be submissive to her husband. That doesn't make much sense to us. This contradiction makes it clear that Lyman's view of women is shaped by his own traumatic relationships with them.