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[Spencer]

My favorite quote from this chapter comes from page (280), “The figures of Dick and herself, mutating, undefined, appeared as spooks caught up into a fantastic dance. For months every word had seemed to have an overtone of some other meaning, soon to be resolved under circumstances that Dick would determine. Though this state of mind was perhaps more hopeful, —the long years of sheer being had had an enlivening effect on the parts of her nature that early illness had killed, that Dick had not reached—through no fault of his but simply because no one nature can extend entirely inside another—it was still disquieting.”
This quote represents how Nicole had finally become her own person. No longer did she have to hide under the shadow of because truly, “no one nature can extend entirely inside another” meaning that no person can live under the shadow of another. She was cured from her treatment and she could go on in her life with out dick to be there. One outside example would probably be “Pony Boy” from the outsiders. His whole life has consisted of him living in the shadow of the greasers and finally in the end her breaks free, writes a book, and becomes his own man.