He is big, strong and catlike, but also gentle and romantic. She herself married down in society, and when her husband died at war, she and the narrator were left penniless.īack in the train compartment, the heroine can hear the Marquis's heavy breathing and smell his scent. She replied, "I'm sure I want to marry him." Even though she seemed unconvinced that her daughter was making the right choice, she kept silent out of her wish for financial security. The heroine recalls how when her wedding dress arrived, her mother asked whether she was sure she loved her husband-to-be. She feels as though she has "in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming a wife." She imagines her mother back at her childhood apartment, putting away her girlhood belongings, and is suddenly struck by a sense of loss. She lies in her train compartment, excited to be leaving her childhood behind and entering into womanhood. She begins her tale by describing the night she traveled alone to her new husband, the Marquis's palace. At the time of the story she is a poor, seventeen-year-old Parisian pianist. " The Bloody Chamber's" heroine narrates the story in retrospect.
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