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My questions are Why does Helena stay with esteem and give jimmy, why does Alison come back to value. These are very tricky questions alike(p) twisted twines. Here I just air my views, expecting to be complemented by yours. The reasons for Helena staying with treasure might be probed from the followingSuperficially looking, esteem is a person basically worth while. esteem is a youngish man with education, ideas and penetrating insights. Alison breaking through her familys strong obstacles to marry respect from side reflects appreciates charms and attractions. Jimmy seems a natural desire and magnet for women if his confinement background?poverty and walled locatings are ignored for the moment. As Helena express she took Jimmy to herself because she come ons that she desires him and wants to have him for a time.It is an outburst of impulse catalyzed by special occasions. At that time, without digs, Helena had an appointment on the next daytime and had to lodge in Jimmys attic Jimmy is therefore immersed in mishap without comfort while Allison and Cliff left him successively. Witnessing Jimmys bitterness and helplessness, out of her feminine compassionate nature, Helena offered Jimmy her hand and herself as well. For solace and release, Jimmy dramatically accepted his natural enemy. Thus the two naturally and somewhat moved together.Exploring the in-depth reason, Helenas staying with Jimmy might be considered as a repugn she made for herself driven by her instincts of curiosity and conquest. Helena wanted to leave out why the seemingly compatible couple al expressions hostility and torture each former(a), why Jimmy is always angry? dissatisfy and cynical,always trying hard to be offensive, provocative, irritating. Determined by her inborn peremptory personality and her middle-class inclination to sustain the status quo,she takes Jimmy as a challenge and an attempt, an enemy territory to conquer, to justify her middle-class convictions and c onsciousness. She expects Jimmy to be revisiond, back into normal, behaving like anyone else and taking reality like a real man.Naive?romantic and over-confident as Helena is, she fails to change Jimmy. conversely and ironically, she was within an inch of being changed. Helena was inevitably to lose the fight because Jimmys anger was socially deep-rooted. He had the complex of inferiority and superiority. He showed despite for uneducated Cliff, irony for educated Alison. He was well educated, but his situation was no better than the two he looked down upon. It was an affliction and irony to him. He lived at the sea of isolation?desperation and inarticulate agony. Without being heard or understood. He found no target to attack, because everything became his target. Jimmy was a man born out of his time. To change Jimmy Helena should change the times first. It is difficult and impossible for Helena to change the time, and so with Jimmy. To bridge the systematic and fathomless clas s and value gap was never a easy task and doomed to be futile and fruitless.Jimmy and Helenas combination was the effect of passionate impulse. It was a kind of insanity or wrong-doings as Helena herself later commented. Once waken up from the dream, the devastation of their relation was approaching. Helena was a womanhood of conventionality by nature, she couldnt close up the book of rules anytime. She still believed in right and wrong Gnawed by the twist of conscience and sense of guilt, she cant be apt without the book of rules, she cant be happy when what youre doing is wrong, or is hurting someone else.Moreover she wooly the state of war waged against changing Jimmy, the war to restore everything into normal. Unless Jimmy and Helena dont confront with each other face to face, or they will certainly fall into the state of war, the war of ideas, class, values, social reality. There was no middle road to compromise. Helenas exeuntting also meant she lost the war against co nventionality, against status quo. Her story is much than a morality one, it barely proved every desire or attempt to change the smothering and inanimate society over-confident and all for naught. Everyone would inevitably subordinate himself to conventionality.My understanding of Alisons effect is explained as suchAlison might feel regret about her retiring(a) behaviors. Though she is the seeming victim of Jimmys irrational assault, she knows that Jimmy has reason to do so on her. After her abortion, something dormant was aroused from the bottom of her feeling and she came back to Jimmy, though shilly-shally. As a young woman, she is a depositary of non-attachment. She hasnt had a thought for years She is a woman in her 20s without enthusiasm, support and sincerity. Nothing Jimmy could do would provoke her. Her marriage with Jimmy was a kind of physical and responsive affinity rather than mental and weird one. She was nicknamed as Lady Pusillanimous by Jimmy.Moreover, as a middle-class woman by nature, she kept her arrogant and uppish manner in communication with the working-class people which was especially exposed when she wrote letter to her mother, discussed Jimmy with her sire and Helena, refused to see the dying Mrs. Hugh with Jimmy. She had the sense of inborn class superiority which is a fatal and permanent weapon to sensitive Jimmy. She did betray Jimmy in a sense. In a word, she has never given herself to her husband with the ingenuousness which she knew he demanded and needed. Actually, she knew she should shoulder some responsibility for Jimmys anger and offered Jimmy more understanding and communication. The problem of their marriage was not sheer Jimmys fault.Alison left Jimmy in by-line of peace and relaxation. Tortured by Jimmys distorted devotion and loyalty demands for her, Alison wanted to escape from the role of security and the war Jimmy declared on those sections of society. But Alison never succeeded in escape. Things didn t go in the way as she expected.Alisons coming back could be interpreted as a subjugation to conventionality?reality and failure of Ostrichism. Alison is slowly to get used to everything and she is also on the verge of burst. Tortured by Jimmys distorted allegiance and loyalty demands for her, Alison wanted to escape from the role of hostage and the war Jimmy declared on those sections of society. She leaves Jimmy, in pursuit of peace and relaxation. But Alison never succeeded in escape. Things didnt go in the way as she expected.Her abortion brings her shock and disillusionment, awakening something dormant in her heart. She then clearly sees a depressing?aimless?hopeless and futureless reality, without demoralize and outlet. By then she understood Jimmys anger and discontent to some extent. Without a bright future, Alison had to revert to the past, though vague, remote and suspended it is. She wanted to find herself a position in the conventional and accustomed role of wife. The sharp-worded past seems a more lovely memento In comparing with the suffocating and smoldering reality.Finally Alison and Jimmy decide to pick up the bear-squirrel game. It is a seeming communiqu by Alison and Jimmy, protesting the reality and fighting against the cruel brand name traps, lying about everywhere, just waiting for rather mad, slightly satanic, and very timid little animals. This could be regarded as a faint beat of hope offered by the protagonists who had a in-depth perception and understanding of life.