The Portrait of a Lady | Characters
Isabel's evolution from a charming and innocent girl with bright aspirations to a woman whose maturity has been achieved at the cost of much unhappiness is traced visually in the three moments she is seen framed in a doorway and dressed in black. The first of these portraits constitutes her entrance into the story since it captures her just as she leaves the Touchett mansion and steps onto the sunlit lawn at Gardencourt. Here she represents the freshness and confidence of youth, the luminosity of freedom and hopefulness, and an idealism which discounts wealth and social position in favor...
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