Therese knows shame immediately upon meeting the philosophical trucker carrying her drunk husband in with the argument that people meet as best they can and the important thing is that they meet. The husband weighs little; he will weigh more dead than alive. Mother Raquin took in the niece Therese for her son and for the shop. "Movies are bad for you," she says. "You dream too much. There's nothing romantic in love." L'amour n'a rien de romanesque.
Therese is more novelistic than romantic, sullen as a bovary eschewing equine whinying. Her long marriage is symbolized by the weekly dice game they play on a tiny racetrack with tiny hourse going round and round. The trucker represents escape, risk. Therese compares her composure in selling to people who never know what they want to the blackmailer soldier's sang froid facing forest of death and sunken ship. All he wants is to sell second-hand bicycles. But he has a habit of backing out. "One time in Shanghai..."
Therese is more novelistic than romantic, sullen as a bovary eschewing equine whinying. Her long marriage is symbolized by the weekly dice game they play on a tiny racetrack with tiny hourse going round and round. The trucker represents escape, risk. Therese compares her composure in selling to people who never know what they want to the blackmailer soldier's sang froid facing forest of death and sunken ship. All he wants is to sell second-hand bicycles. But he has a habit of backing out. "One time in Shanghai..."
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