当她住在波浪时,房子看上去对她来说似乎完全正常,她的家人住的房子似乎很舒服。但是用眼睛看着加博隆的眼睛看着它,那里的大建筑物似乎是卑鄙而狭窄的。
(When she had lived in Bobonong the houses seemed perfectly normal to her and the house in which her family lived had seemed quite comfortable. But looking at it with eyes that had seen Gaborone, and the large buildings there, their house had seemed mean and cramped.)
在“在开朗的女士们的陪伴下”,主角反思了她的经历,她的经历生活在波浪,她在见到Gaborone后的观点如何变化。最初,她将自己在波浪的房屋视为正常和舒适。但是,在经历了加博隆(Gaborone)的更大,更宽敞的建筑之后,她开始将自己以前的住所视为小而不足。这种感知的转变凸显了体验对人们如何看待周围环境的影响。
观点的这种变化说明了文献中的一个共同主题,熟悉度会滋生舒适性,但与新标准相比,随后可以转变为不满意。波浪和加博隆的对比环境是强调个人成长以及一个人的愿望的发展,因为它们遇到了新的地方和生活方式。最终,这句话反映了家庭经历和暴露于不同现实的家庭的复杂性和舒适性。