I've seen some interesting things so far. Brenda is pushing a woman towards Tony, who is still devoted to her, hoping for an affair to start up. I think she probably wants this to happen so that in many ways, Brenda can feel better about herself. She'll feel that if they're both doing it, she's not really doing anything wrong.
And her characterization of being some sort of teacher figure applies to even the new friends Brenda makes at her "economics class". I don't even know if she's taking those classes or just spending more time with Beaver. I've also noticed that although she is in control of her affair with Beaver, as in what he gets to do to her and when they get to see each other or speak to each other, she is still a woman. She still hopes that Beaver will disobey her and send her gifts and letters and call her while she's at home with Tony. "She had forbidden Beaver to send her a present or to write to her; in self protection, for she knew that whatever he said would hurt her by its poverty, but in spite of this she awaited the posts nervously, hoping that he might have disobeyed her." [80]
I feel that Waugh is characterizing her in this way to show that although she is a manipulative person and portrayed as a villain, she still has these good characteristics about her that make her seem...less bad? She is portrayed in that light to make her more humane.
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Hey. Your book sounds really interesting. You mentioned that one of the characters is pushing the other to have an affair...does the author particularly suggest something about either of them? Does she want to tell the audience something of their behavior? What's her attitude towards them? Just some interesting questions to think about. It seems the author ist trying to really hint something about these characters.
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