The Dark Glasses: A Mysterious Encounter

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  • In Muriel Spark's novel, The Dark Glasses, a young girl recalls a strange encounter at an eye test where she felt sexually uncomfortable.
  • She describes how Mr. Simmonds, the optician, put his arm around her shoulder and touched her neck while his sister, Dorothy Simmonds, watched in silence.
  • Feeling in the wrong, the girl begins to look around the dark room with a wide-eyed air, unsure of what to do.
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The Dark Glassesからの英文です。

I had seen Miss Simmonds once before, at a garden fete, where she stood on a platform in a big hat and blue dress, and sang "Sometimes between long shadows on the grass", while I picked up windfall apples, all of which seemed to be rotten. Now in her white overall she turned and gave me a hostile look, as if I had been seducing her brother. I felt sexually in the wrong, and started looking round the dark room with a wide-eyed air. Muriel SparkのThe Dark Glassesからの英文です。 ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー I felt sexually in the wrong, and started looking round the dark room with a wide-eyed air. ここの、 I felt sexually in the wrongとはどういう意味合いですか? in the wrongとはどういうことを言いたかったのでしょうか? (主人公の女の子は何も悪くはないと思うのですが) また、 and started looking round the dark room with a wide-eyed air.の個所の with a wide-eyed airという表現は(主人公の状態として)どんなことを表しているのでしょうか? 小説なので書いている表現を読み取るのが難しいのですが 教えていただけると幸いです。 前文は I was sent to have my eyes tested. He took me into the darkened interior and said, "Sit down, dear." He put his arm round my shoulder. His forefinger moved up and down on my neck. I was thirteen and didn't like to be rude to him. Dorothy Simmonds, his sister, came downstairs just then; she came upon us silently and dressed in a white overall. Before she had crossed the room to switch on a dim light Mr Simmonds removed his arm from my shoulder with such a jerk that I knew for certain he had not placed it there in innocence. となっています。 (お手数をおかけしてしまってすみません) he(Mr Simmonds)=検眼士です。 宜しくお願いします。

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1。I felt sexually in the wrongとはどういう意味合いですか?  下記のように「間違って」という意味です。  http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=in+the+wrong 2。in the wrongとはどういうことを言いたかったのでしょうか?  「性的に間違っている」すなわち、性的に誘惑しているのは主人公の女の子ではなくて、検眼士のシモンズの方だったのだが、それが「誤解されている」と感じた、ということでしょう。 3。with a wide-eyed airという表現は(主人公の状態として)どんなことを表しているのでしょうか?  下記のように「目を大きく開いて」、「びっくりして」と言うのが字義通りの意味ですが。暗くした部屋では目を大きくするという意味と、目の検査中で、瞳孔が開いている、といううまい意味上の重なりが感じられます。  それと、私から誘惑するなんて私まだ13の少女よ、と性的な無邪気さを強調してドロシーの疑いを消そうとする多少芝居がかったカマトト風驚きも加わっていると思います。  http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=wide-eyed

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よくわかりました! ご解説、ありがとうございます。 13歳の主人公の女の子の気持ちと行為について、なるほどと思いました。 リンクのページもありがとうございます。

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小説の描写ですから、このように解釈しなければならないとか、このように解釈するのが正しいとかいうふうに押し付けるのは感心しないので、あくまでも私の解釈、私はこう読んだというだけのこととして回答してみます。 > I felt sexually in the wrong, and started looking round the dark room with a wide-eyed air.  語り手は男性かと思って読んでいましたが、あぁ、女の子ですか。それなら分かりやすいです。  I felt sexually in the wrong は 「わたしは自分で彼を誘惑したかのように感じた」 といった意味に取れます。「性的に悪い」 とは、この場合は、「誘惑した」 という意味合いを含んでいます。  wide-eyed air は 「大きく目をあけた態度で」 ということですが、首筋に指を触れられた感触が快いものであるかのように目を細めていたのかもしれません。それを 我に返った ようにシャンとした気持ちに戻したということです。

aduagrean
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I felt sexually in the wrong は「誘惑した」という意味合いを含んでいるんですね。 (語り手、主人公は女の子です) wide-eyed air のところもご解説ありがとうございます!

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