Step-by-step explanation:
selfish yet deeply feeling—things that resist classification. Subtly our sympathies are shifted. We learn that Charlotte has been surrounded too long by sophisticated, highly verbal, ironic people. Here's the way her bitter husband, Warren Bogart, sneers about her new life: “Excuse me. I mean your ‘life-style.’ You don't have a life, you have a ‘life-style.’ You still look good though.” Once as her English instructor at Berkeley Warren angrily tore in half an essay she wrote. Her second husband, Leonard Douglas, is a lawyer whose professional attitude toward his wife's sensibility veers from tolerant condescension to angry sarcasm. He's brilliant at law, not love. Charlotte adopts a defensive irony, but her heart is not in it: “that's pretty much what happens everywhere, isn't it,” she says. “Somebody