The Price of Salt, or Carol Chapter 2 Quotes
The Price of Salt, or Carol Chapter 2 Quotes
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Quote 1
Georgia might have been one of the girls Richard had had an affair with, Therese supposed. He had once mentioned about five. (2.47)
They're not as prudish in the 1950s as they were in earlier decades, but men are still more open about their sexuality than women are. Richard is more sexually experienced with the opposite gender than Therese is.
Quote 2
It was a strange relationship, she supposed, and who would believe it? Because from what she had seen in New York, everybody slept with everybody they had dates with more than once or twice. (2.62)
Here we see that it's also socially acceptable for young people of both genders to have sex before marriage. This isn't quite the sexual revolution of the 1960s, but it shows the culture leading up to that moment.
Quote 3
The feeling bore no resemblance to what she had read about love. Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity. (2.67)
There are two ways to learn about love—to read about it and to feel it. Therese has only read about it, but are books an accurate way to depict love? Or do they make it more dramatic than it is? What about this book? Is it accurate or dramatic?