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I'm realizing that George Amberson, the protagonist, is a horribly entitled child. Apparently everyone else in George's life realizes this too, as they "longed to see the day he would get his come-uppance:. At age 12, George enters private school. He proves to be quite intelligent, but still very bellicose. At age 16, he's kicked out of prep school for "insolence and profanity". The next couple chapters develop George as an arrogant youth.
When he comes home for Christmas break during his sophomore year of college, a party is held in his honor. Here, while standing in the reception line with his mother, he feels an "uncomfortable feeling" of attraction towards her, which escalates to a moment of resentment. I'm not sure, yet, if this is important or not. At the party he meets a "queer-looking duck [man]" who is the uncle of two neighbor girls called The Sharons. He also meets Miss Lucy Morgan, a pretty 19-year old girl who catches his eye. George is quickly enamored of Lucy and insists that she must dance "every third dance" with him. Throughout the evening he finds out that the queer-looking man is her father, and also an old friend of George's mother. I think that he might be one of two young men that tried to woo her at the beginning of the book. The other wooer was George's father.
I think that my high school English teacher, Mrs. Barton, would be proud of me. I've noticed I'm reading more for the author's purpose than I ever did in high school. I'm not sure I like this development. I have quite a lot of notes written down for the first six chapters of this book, but now I've realized that I didn't really use all that many of my notes. I think from now on I'm going to read just for the story, and only write things down that really catch my attention. I guess I'm still not completely sure what I want this blog to be.
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