How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
He was sure he was tending a sweet but abused young girl at first, but when she bit him he said, Oh, she's wild. (7.3)
If you take away one thing from Jazz (besides an appreciation of jazz music) remember not to make snap judgments about girls. Not all young girls are sweet and innocent, and neither are all young girls scandalous and after older men. The characters in this book keep learning this over and over again, with women tending to view girls as sinful and men tending to view them as innocent.
Quote #8
"I taught you both you all never kill the tender and nothing female if you can help it." (7.27)
The laws of hunting, folks: Don't kill babies, don't kill women. This is one of those things that is totally sound when it's kept to sphere of hunting, but starts getting angry-making when it becomes metaphorical. Because it lumps women and babies together as innocent, defenseless, kind of unformed entities, and that's kind of messed up when you think about it.
Quote #9
The girls have red lips and their legs whisper to each other through silk stockings. The red lips and the silk flash power. A power they will exchange for the right to be overcome, penetrated. (7.44)
This is Joe's point-of-view, and you can tell a whole lot about Joe from this statement. This highlights both his feelings toward young women and his feelings toward young men: that both are more powerful than he is, and that both are equally lacking in innocence.