Clarissa's Sexuality

Clarissa's Sexuality

Clarissa is an ever changing woman. She in the beginning of her life is very confused, one who to be with relation wise. She can choose either to be with men or women. She has strong feelings for her best friend at the time, who in which is a female. Sally was the one girl that Clarissa had mad feelings for. She respected everything about her, not just her physical features. Catherine says "She sat on the floor-that was her first impression of Sally-she sat on the floor with her arms round her knees, smoking a cigarette" (32). She says many times how Sally is amazing. Clarissa is thinking" But all that evening she could not take her eyes off Sally" (32). Clarissa makes the reader wonder if she really is going after the same sex or not. Clarissa envies sally "Sally's power was amazing, her gift, her personality. There was here way with flowers, for instance" (33).

Clarissa always wanted someone to comfort her through the bad and Sally was that one to be there for her. In later passages she relates there love life as that of grown women "It was completely disinterested, and besides, it had a quality which could only exist between women, between women just grown up" (33). So in other words Clarissa is a young women but her love for Sally is something of a young women that just grew up to be a real woman.

Clarissa in the end marries a man and shows the reader that she doesn't like the same sex and wants a man in her life, for support and comfort.