…yet she knew that being a potential divorcee was deeply pleasurable in somewhat the same way that being an engaged girl had been. In both cases there was at first a subterranean courtship, whose significance it was necessary to conceal from outside observers. The concealment of the original, premarital courtship had, however, been a mereContinue reading “RKS American Literature: Extra-Marital Affair vs. Engagement (Mary McCarthy)”
