I really enjoy your analysis of the language George uses when describing Evadne and how you explain how her descriptors are on a binary of either "fruit-like" or "animalistic.” These bookends of characterization illustrate Evadne’s strong intellect and sense of sexuality in a negative and threatening way, while still allowing the reader to conclude that George builds up these prejudices in his own mind. It is also prevalent that these two binaries symbolize negative connotations not only about Evadne’s sex, but about her race as well. The fruit imagery George gives to Evadne gives her a sense of “exoticism” and makes her something of a fetish in what seems to be George’s predominantly white life. He desires this racially “forbidden fruit” to
