The Unvanquished, 227 (Event)

Page Number: 
227
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3
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I just knew that she was looking at me
Page Event Ends: 
229
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
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Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, August 15, 1873 to Sunday, August 31, 1873
Summary: 

Drusilla asks Bayard to kiss her; he resists at first but eventually succumbs, and afterwards he thinks of "the woman of thirty, the symbol of the ancient and eternal Snake and of the men who have written of her" (228). He then thinks how the war had "tried to stamp all the women of her generation and class in the South into a type and how it had failed" (229).

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Keywords: 
Subterfuge, Trickery, Morality, Sexual Attraction, Lust, Kiss, Gesture, Allusion:Eden, Allusion:Balzac, Allusion:Snake, Print, Flora:Verbena, Flower, Smell:Verbena, War, Stereotype, Womanhood, Lost Cause, Gesture
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