{"id":865,"date":"2015-05-03T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/losttimepaige\/?p=91"},"modified":"2015-05-03T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T19:16:58","slug":"paigerenees-close-reading-stacys-seminar-vol-iii-the-guermantes-way-pages-1-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/paigerenees-close-reading-stacys-seminar-vol-iii-the-guermantes-way-pages-1-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Paigerenee\u2019s Close Reading- (Stacy\u2019s Seminar) VOL III: The Guermantes Way pages: 1-32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first pages of the third volume <em>The Guermantes Way<\/em>, the character Francoise was introduced as being unhappy and depressed after the family moved into a new home, to me it seems as if she misses her title (or I guess I think it was her Seniority and respect among the rest of the staff, She was actually treated like apart of the family) that she had in the old home in Combray too much. The narrator would seem as if he had no problem leaving because it was easy for him to leave the old and also laughed at her with ridicule because he felt that she was being too sensitive about the situation. But the two characters shared this sensitivity after the concierge didn\u2019t give Francoise the respect she thought she deserved and after the narrator\u2019s young footman made him feel the same way he goes to her, probably for sympathy but she wasn\u2019t interested in what he had to say. The narrator then writes, \u201cThe alleged \u2018sensitivity\u2019 of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an ever increasing attention in themselves.\u201d I think Proust is saying that, what anxious people take sensitively is what they think of themselves, which is why they can\u2019t stand when others flaunt that fact around. When they were already thinking about it themself. When Francoise looked in the other direction while the narrator suffered and vice-versa (when he tried to speak to her about their new house.) I felt that this encounter between the two was significant because in the proceeding pages there are instances where the reoccurring theme of Identity, but Identity through job and feminine titles. Like from pages 21 and 22, \u2018\u201cI meant to talk to their butler about it\u2026What is it now they call him?\u201d She broke off as though putting to herself a question of protocol, which she went on to answer with: \u2018 Oh, of course, it\u2019s Antoine they call him!\u2019 as though Antoine had been a title. \u2018He\u2019s the one could tell me, but he\u2019s quite the gentleman, he is, a great pedant, you\u2019d think they\u2019d cut his tongue out, or that he\u2019d forgotten to learn to speak. He makes no reply when you talk to him,\u2019\u201d(Proust, 21) This is Francoise that said this and it makes me want to recall a time in the past book where she is referred to the title of her job. From my memory she is only called by her name and when she refers to Antonine \u201cas though Antonine had been a title\u201d I think she does this on purpose because she sees this person as a person and not just by his job. She places her views that a person with or with out the title of a \u201cfootman\u201d or perhaps a \u201cmaid\u201d is still a \u201cfootman\u201d or a \u201cmaid\u201d but simply identifying them with their real name conveys a sense of humanity and respect for that individual. On the following page, after Francoise talks about how the Duchess is address by her feminine name at the Guermantes Castle, but says its interesting to her that it\u2019s the Duchess who is the Mayoress of those parts and I feel that its implied because it\u2019s not the Duchess who is the mayor, it is only because of her husbands title that she acquires the name, there are those who actually work hard for their title and when individuals who do (such as Francoise, Antoine etc.) they deserves to be identified properly. Rather than those like the Duchess who doesn\u2019t have to do anything. I find this theme of Identity through titles and names corolates with the narrators theme of iden<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first pages of the third volume The Guermantes Way, the character Francoise was introduced as being unhappy and depressed after the family moved into a new home, to me it seems as if she misses her title (or I guess I think it was her Seniority and respect among the rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/losttime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}