Cy Maitland is an American leucotomy surgeon who has an affair with Ella in the yellow notebook. He is energetic and boyish, attractive and proudly uncultured; Ella meets him on their rickety flight from Paris, and they sleep together a handful of times during his stay in London. Cy is sexually inept and unsatisfying, but impressed by Ella’s experience and emotional depth, which leads him to wonder what it would be like to marry “someone like you” instead of his wife. He disapproves of Ella’s communism, affairs, and independence, but feels that he learned from their time together. The tension between Cy’s professional success and juvenile personality reflects the pattern of men’s emotional and interpersonal underdevelopment in this book.
Cy Maitland Quotes in The Golden Notebook
The The Golden Notebook quotes below are all either spoken by Cy Maitland or refer to Cy Maitland. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Notebooks: 2
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(At this point, Ella detached herself from Ella, and stood to one side, watching and marvelling.)
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Cy Maitland Quotes in The Golden Notebook
The The Golden Notebook quotes below are all either spoken by Cy Maitland or refer to Cy Maitland. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
The Notebooks: 2
Quotes
(At this point, Ella detached herself from Ella, and stood to one side, watching and marvelling.)
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis: