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Iris has explained how her father, Norval, was injured and traumatized in World War I, which killed both his brothers. When Norval returned, he had lost his faith in God and he took to drinking in order to numb the psychological trauma he incurred as a soldier. This estranged him from his devoutly religious wife, Iris’s mother Liliana. In this passage, Iris wonders what it was like for Liliana and Norval—who she maintains still loved each other—to become so alienated from each other following the war.
Iris’s comment that she will never personally understand this experience is intriguing. Iris experiences…