Lady Tal

"Indeed, id Jarvase Marion, ever since his earliest manhood, had given way to a tendency to withdraw from all personal concerns, from all emotion or action, it was mainly because he conceived that this shrinkingness of nature (which foolish persons call egoism) was the necessary compliment to his power of intellectual analysis." Seeing marion as this sort of emotionless 3rd party perfectly objective observer was very fascinating in a narrator. i person who craved the knowledge of social situations, but never wished to be in them he treated people and social interactions like animals at a zoo. I found this interesting because the way the book is presented, with this objective narrator, gives Lady Tal the center stage. but with this particular vantage point, it allows the reader (me) to truly experience what it would be like to be in the presence of the enigma that is Lady Tal.