- All's Well That Ends Well
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The old man and Leila are dancing together, and the old man has just explained that he’s been attending balls for 30 years. But here, he tells Leila that, as a woman, she could never do the same—the older women at the ball watch the dancing from a distance.
What follows is a glimpse into the old man’s apparently sexist worldview: although Leila is young, the old man imagines her as she’ll be when she’s older, which visibly disgusts him (he “seemed to shudder”). Even as he references the “elderly” women in the room, he chooses to ignore them, instead…