It is not clear whether she ever returned to Antigua and her husband as she had wished.Two libel cases arose out of it, and Prince was called to testify at each.An example is Prince's description of being sold away from her mother at a young age:Prince wrote of slavery with the authority of personal experience, something her political opponents could never match.She wrote: Therese and Carol are forced to separate by legal circumstance forged by the divorce proceedings.“Their eyes met at the same instant. Her mouth was as wise as her eyes, Therese thought, and her voice was like her coat, rich and supple and somehow full of secrets.”The novel is written entirely from Therese’s perspective, a single voice narrative style presently in vogue. Production facilities dedicated to the mineral provided work for many people, but now most of the sites are destroyed or hidden deeply under the ground and buildings of modern cities. Not only the lens of Therese’s perspective but also the dialog used as a literary device allows us to more fully grasp the coloring of Carol’s personality. 2016 Reprint of 1952 Edition. Salt was one of the greatest treasures of the ancient world. Each woman knows what she desires and while they dance around one another, neither knows the steps to manifest what she wishes.All through the book (in less than a year) Therese grows into a woman as the house visits become a long road trip on which obsession becomes mutual love: “She saw Carol’s pale hair across her eyes, and now Carol’s head was close against hers. (In 1952 such love was a taboo subject.) Both what she says and how she acts carry layers of implicit meaning.At first Therese grapples with trying to understand why falling in love with a woman is classified as distinct from falling in love with a man. Understand more, faster. Therese works temporarily as an assistant in the toy department, and Carol is looking for a doll for her young daughter:Slowly the disapprobation of the morally prejudiced world shatters their idyll. Courageously, Carol, accepting the reality of her identity, refuses to deny her sexuality although it means she cannot see her daughter. Only a naturally talented and consummate storyteller could create the realistic and slowly evolving portrayal of Therese’s character.One of the strengths of the novel lies in our being privy to Therese’s musings and struggles to find the mores and etiquette of her emotional response to a woman. Directed by Todd Haynes. The Price involves two brothers, Victor and Walter, and focuses on the distribution of their dead parents’ belongings, all housed in a ten-room brownstone. As a child Mary worked in poor conditions in the salt ponds up to her knees in water. Mary Prince (c. 1 October 1788 – after 1833) was a British abolitionist and autobiographer, born in Bermuda to an enslaved family of African descent. Carol is undergoing a divorce and is in a legal battle for joint custody of her daughter. It is not difficult perhaps to see the novel as tinged with the darkness of the human condition that becomes Highsmith’s landscape in her later novels. It is a fairly realistic look at lesbian life in the 1950s. Test your knowledge on all of A Modest Proposal. Yet love triumphs and the novel ends with a true beginning of the possibilities of a life together.“It was suddenly too much, her hands on the keyboard Carol played, Carol watching her with eyes half closed, Carol’s whole house around her, and the music that made her abandon herself, made her defenseless.”In the early part of the book it is easy to see Therese as an unwitting, innocent but willing quarry, but at the conclusion—grown up now—she becomes both predator and prey. At first maternal, but with an implicit edge of secret intimacy, she surprises herself by falling so deeply in love—desire becomes need. Free! Her eyes were gray, colorless, yet dominant as light or fire, and caught by them, Therese could not look away.