This part of the book has shown me some denials of the blatant
and known truth by characters and some irony demonstrated by others. I see it
obvious that Jim doesn’t really love Cherryl, not like she loves and respects
him, and like some other characters like Betty have said, I believe that Jim is
marrying this girl because it makes him look like the hero he loves to be seen
as. People look at Jim and say “He’s so nice, he brought that girl up from
nothing and is giving her everything” Jim is also doing this, in my opinion,
because he’s following his shown humanistic side and “giving a chance to the
smaller people” who people like him usually look down at. So this is either a
pity marriage or a selfish act by Jim to make his public face look more appealing.
I also see some of Lillian’s denial of accepting what’s going on between Dagny
and Hank, even though she’s shown some signs that she’s not clueless. When she
was telling Dagny to give her her bracelet back and told her that she’s running
the risk of being misunderstood, she meant being misunderstood by Lillian
herself, and with Dagny refusing to give it up and then Hank making Lil
apologize for the occurrence, Lillian has enough proof to know what’s going on,
but she doesn’t want to accept it out loud because she wants to stay with Hank
and obviously cares a lot more about him than he cares about her.
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