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The character sketch of Lilian Matfield

At the very beginning of the book M.makes an impression of a snooty (высокомерный) and condescending (снисходительный) secretary, indifferent to what is going on in T &D, possessing neither outstanding appearance not character, just a usual out-of-the-crowd woman. She is supported by her father’s monthly payments and lives in a residential club for girls from middle-class homes in the country compelled by economic conditions to live in London as cheaply as possible. The place is so unbearable and the institution atmosphere so oppressive that the only thing M.M. wants is to get away. She never ceases to curse the place where she has to share life with all kinds of shadow and inferior people: young naive girls and old spinsters. The whole sight seems too depressive and cheerless and resembles a cage for Miss M. dreams and fantasies. She wasn't pretty, but her voice, manners, all pointed to that she nursed some huge overwhelming grievance (недовольство) against her life, but though she gave tongue to a thousand little grievances every day, she never mentioned.

The idea of a man warms strongly her secret heart. If she married him she might want to domasticate in a beautiful old country house in which she has spent so many imaginary Christmases. She longs for love and attention, looking forward to start a new life, tired of dullness and shabbiness of everyday life and office routine. She hates it and wants to run away from it all to a deserted island and spend the rest of her life in isolation with a handsome man from her fantasies. She wants to evade reality and escape from her secretly imaginary world. Her feelings have already been hurt by a "monster and it's immensely difficult for her to revive faith in love and romance.

Miss M. is a young, energetic, good-looking woman, deeply dissatisfied with her present life and oppressed by the surrounding atmosphere and people waiting for her savior, her prince. As soon as the first candidate turns up, Lillian readily jumps at the chance, no matter how improper (неподходящий) and indecent it seems to look like. She creates an idealistic image of Mr. G. and falls in love.

For sure she has doubts about her relationships but now it’s too late. She patiently waits at the station for her man, full of hopes and expectations and inevitably gets disillusioned. Finally when Lillian realizes that it's all in vain and that her savoir isn't going to come, she feels uncomfortable, foolish and develops disdain (презрение) towards herself; her dreams and her imaginary world.

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