ENGC70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aphrodisiac, Sharing Space, Call It Sleep
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Remember that albert feels emasculated because he"s an immigrant - in the second half of the book he"s behind a horse"s butt all day (an association he makes) David allows milk thieves to steal the milk, and albert the wrathful father hunting them down and whipping the thieves. In this event, albert feels his manhood restored. David feels the opposite because he allowed them to take it - he is startled by his mother. Albert comes home and has sex with genya - david comes back and sees that his mother is different in a bathrobe (sexuality) somehow, but cannot understand why. Albert can satisfy genya in a way david cannot - david is incapable of matching his father. So david goes in search of a larger power to match his father. The jim burden of the novel - a boy of freedom and mobility (although he is also an immigrant)
