Shortly after he wakes up, thinks he sees the ghost of his dead wife lying next to him, and jumps up screaming. This freaks out the prostitute, who quickly dresses. The prostitute opens the door to a very irritated and now very shocked set of in-laws. She exits into the hallway while the Kellers go into the room with Chorb and close the door.
Silence follows. Not only has Chorb been in the room before, but so has the prostitute. She like him recognises it from the picture of a pink baigneuse above the bed. Chorb wakes with a terrible shock in the middle of the night, but realises that his ordeal is over. At that moment the Kellers arrive, to discover the prostitute just leaving.
The guy has just buried his wife in the south of France but left before the funeral. Oh, and after he sees a ghost and flips out screaming, he sits around smiling. Fortunately, most of the answers are right there in your text. The text says: "he wished to possess his grief all by himself, without tainting it by any foreign substance and without sharing it with any other soul.
Rather than share their joy with others at the wedding reception, they chose to keep it for themselves — pure and untainted. Again, pure and untainted. This is the nature of his love for her: something that exists only between them. If things are bad enough, you might even describe those old haunts as, well, haunted. The Original Collection Which you could all go out and buy immediately, and now you have no excuse because you know what it looks like.
Vladimir Nabokov A photo of the author. He did so carefully and with consideration to style and thematic consistency. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide.
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