Justine by lawrence durrell6/22/2023 ![]() Soon, the narrator and Justine are spending a great deal of time together, sometimes with Nessim and Melissa and other times alone. It's after this lecture that Justine approaches him and takes him back to meet Nessim. ![]() They are soon living together and it's because he wants to buy her a new coat that he agrees to speak at a lecture. She throws over an older man who'd contributed to her upkeep only marginally in favor of the narrator, probably because he had shown her a great tenderness and care when she was near death from a dose of Spanish Fly. ![]() She is a dancer and there is an immediate connection. The narrator is a teacher and had been barely making ends meet when he'd met Melissa. He then changes the setting to his life in Alexandria. As the story opens, the narrator tells of his life at the end of the story in which he lives quietly, raising Melissa's child and doing little else. The four people are the narrator - who is never called by name - his girlfriend Melissa, the woman with whom he has an affair Justine, and Justine's husband Nessim. The city is a major part of the story with the narrator claiming that the city and its ways have a hold on the inhabitants and forever mark them. ![]() The story circulates around four people during the period leading up to World War II. ![]()
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