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Clara Page is an impoverished, widowed cousin of Amory’s whom Monsignor Darcy urges Amory to visit in Philadelphia. Amory eventually falls in love with her. Unlike Amory’s other loves, Clara is virtuous, kind, and grounded. Amory wants to marry Clara, but she refuses him because she wants to devote her time to her two children and vowed never to marry again. Clara also claims that she has never been in love and could not marry a clever man like Amory. Amory, meanwhile, considers Clara to be too good for him. Clara knows Amory well and is an excellent judge of his character, and she sets Amory on a path to becoming a “personage.” Amory’s relationship with Clara is the most distinct and least destructive of all his love affairs.
Clara Page Quotes in This Side of Paradise
The This Side of Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Clara Page or refer to Clara Page. 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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Book 1, Chapter 4: Narcissus Off Duty Quotes
She was immemorial…. Amory wasn’t good enough for Clara, Clara of ripply golden hair, but then no man was. Her goodness was above the prosy morals of the husband-seeker, apart from the dull literature of female virtue.
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Amory’s relationship with and attitude toward Clara is notably distinct from his other romantic relationships in the novel. Amory sees some of himself in all of his other lovers. In contrast, Amory puts Clara on a pedestal and is drawn to her because he sees her as his moral superior. Clara makes Amory want to be less haughty and self-interested. Unlike with Amory’s other lovers (whom Amory feels confident in his ability to conquer), Amory does not effortlessly charm Clara, instead seeing himself as unworthy of her. While Amory demonstrates his admiration for Clara, this quote still reflects the same Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odi
Book 2, Chapter 2: Experiments in Convalescence Quotes
Amory had loved Rosalind as he would never love another living person. She had taken the first flush of his youth and brought from his unplumbed depths tenderness that had surprised him, gentleness and unselfishness that he had never given to another creature. He had later love-affairs, but of a different sort: in those he went back to that, perhaps, more typical frame of mind, in which the girl became the mirror of a mood in him.
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This quote further demonstrates the intensity of Amory’s love for Rosalind, and therefore the degree to which the pain of its dissolution traumatized Amory and made it more difficult for him to have romantic relationships in the future. Despite the fact that both Amory and Rosalind are deeply selfish people, the intensity of their love does make him better and inspires him to be unselfish and tender in a way that even his love for Clara, who is a more moral person, did not. This quote therefore demonstrates the power of love, a power so strong that it scared Amory Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates.
Book 2, Chapter 3: Young Irony Quotes
Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty.
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The idea expressed in this quote, that the temptations of romantic love are a form of evil, is one of Amory’s major realizations by the end of the novel that leads him to his pessimistic view of love and sexuality. In earlier relationships with Isabelle, Clara, and Rosalind, Amory saw the exciting possibilities of being in love. But after the end of his relationship with Rosalind, Amory comes to see love as fundamentally corrupted and dangerous, leading him away from his quest for individual fulfillment and self-knowledge. Such a belief perhaps reflects the fact that, aside from Clara, Amory is Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo
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Clara Page Character Timeline in This Side of Paradise
The timeline below shows where the character Clara Page appears in This Side of Paradise. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 1, Chapter 4: Narcissus Off Duty
...in a letter, asks Amory to visit a poor, widowed cousin of Amory’s in Philadelphia, Clara Page, as a favor.
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When Amory visits Clara, she is not the image of poverty that he expected. Amory is enamored with her...
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