In Tonae's blog about the first half she was right about Mr. Royall having hating Lucious because of Charity liking him. His anger become more visible as the book goes on like when he sees her with him with out a hat on and calls her a bareheaded whore in front of everyone.
In Quinlin's blog she talks about all of the sexual refrences and I say thats very in line with how Wharton portrays Lucious to look at Charity. For example when she attempts to run away to the mountains and he finds her while riding bike, she mentions twice how he wasn't listening to her he grabbed her and asked her to kiss him like she did last night. Or how he was looking at her with passion, not with understanding. He didn't love her intelligance, and he wasn't there to understand her, he was just interested in the newness of her and foriegn small town ways.
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I don't know if I agree with you or not about Harney's motives. There were times when I thought he really did love Charity, but couldn't get out of his social obligations to Annabel Balch. Although, like you said, he could've just been in love with her uniqueness and small-town ways.
I agree with Marissa. I think Harney really did love Charity as well. Also, opposite of you and Quinlin, I focused more on romance then the sexual references.
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