I shall be leaving at once” (Larsen, 47). This decision was to leave school and to leave Naxos. When the conversation between them reached the topic of the family, Helga made a decision. He was a fulfilled person, and it was difficult for him to understand Helga’s hesitations concerning her place in the world and society. He thought Helga’s decision to leave was connected with the school they worked at.
QUICKSAND NELLA LARSEN PROFESSIONAL
Andersen conceived all of Helga’s reasons for leaving form the point of view of their professional activity.
However, there was a difference between them. Moreover, he was very close to persuade Helga. You have dignity and breeding” (Larsen, 46). Representing the logical arguments, he tried to play on Helga’s feelings and emotions. “Someday, you’ll learn that lies, injustice, and hierocracy are a part of every ordinary community” (Larsen 44). Anderson, he began to persuade Helga not to leave them. Though Helga’s arguments were in a certain manner strange for Dr. She tries to explain to him her anguishes of body and mind, her frustration of the injustice of the society, her attempts to find her place in this world. “For her, the situation seemed charged, unaccountably, with strangeness and something very like hysteria” (Larsen 41). In Naxos, Helga tried to explain to him the reasons for her leaving. He was a tall and handsome man, rather reticent and detached. Anderson was the principal of this school. Anderson took place in the office of the school in Naxos.
However, in fact, there were few opportunities for her. Everywhere she tries to find her place in society. Helga leaves Naxos and moves to Chicago, then to New York, then to Denmark to the family of her mother. And vice versa, in the society of the black, she experiences the white side of her mind. “Negro society, she had learned, was as complicated and as rigid in its ramifications as the highest strata of white society” (Larsen 19).Īt the same time, she feels that in the communication with the whites, she misses the surrounding of the black people. Helga comes to the conclusion that both the societies of the black and white people are overfilled with prejudices, and are too complicated for her to be accepted. She is a stranger to them because of her mixed ancestry. The problem of cultural interaction is emphasized in the novel by the description of the gap between Helga and her fiancé’s family. She leaves Naxos and her fiancé because she is not satisfied with her career of the teacher and the attitude towards her. It is an endless journey, in which the lead character tries to find herself. The whole novel is the description of the endless row of Helga’s trips. Being the daughter of two races, she is not recognized by any of them. She feels lonely, alienated, and unsatisfied with the surrounding reality. From the very beginning of the novel, the author reveals the problem of the individual and its place in society. She was brought up by her mother’s brother. The lead character of the novel is a pretty woman of a mixed marriage.
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