“The occurrences of the night, I may as well confess, taught me to question the reality of many things I after wards saw; and reflect that, though to appearance they were showy, they might prove, upon trial, as coarse as the eating-house waiter, or the blear-eyed actress. I lost also, some of that reverence, and that awkward sense of inferiority, which most country folk, when they take up their abode in this brick-and-pine Babel, so frequently show – and which, by the way, is as amusing to the observers, as it is unfair to themselves.”
-Franklin Evans… Page 33, 3rd Paragraph.. Chapter 5.
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-Narrator appears to be re-capping the events leading to his present time.
-Appears as if he has come to realize that he’s noticed that everyone has “two-faces” almost. What he thought they were at first glance is not really who they truly were during their downtime or off-stage.
-Eg: “Blear-eyed actress” was a woman whom he mentioned in the very beginning who he admired because of her beauty. But when he met her, she looked like a drunken… not as appealing as she did on stage.
-The country folks are also another set of people who he realizes technically lie to themselves because they pretend to be ideal, when in fact they really are not.