Quotes Of Maurice Bendrix

Maurice Bendrix is always quick to judge and assume. In the passage, Bendrix is realizing that Sarah is not the awful human being he thinks she is. Before this passage, Bendrix was constantly fueled by jealousy, for he thought he was second to someone else. It was from this point forward that Maurice realized that he loved her and needed to look past everything to be with her. One reason Bendrix realized he wanted Sarah is that Bendrix truly believed that he was the only one capable of loving her and believing in her. Another reason Bendrix sees Sarah for who she really is, is that he sees that Sarah does not love or believe in herself enough. The last reason is, that Bendrix is no longer blaming Sarah for his sorrows but is blaming God. All

He was beginning to see that Sarah could not no longer believe in herself and no longer believe in the fact that what she was doing was right. ““My dear, my dear. People go on loving God, don’t they, all their lives without seeing Him?’ ‘That’s not our kind of love.’ ‘I sometimes don’t believe there’s any other kind.’ I suppose I should have recognized that she was already under a stranger’s influence – she had never spoken like that when we were first together. We had agreed so happily to eliminate God from our world. As I shone the torch carefully to light her way across the devastated hall, she said again, ‘Everything must be all right. If we love enough’” (Greene 77). Maurice is seeing right through her and realizing that she doesn’t believe in herself anymore if she’s bringing up God. In the scene where Bendrix is hit by blast of the V1 bomb, Sarah and Maurice have this confrontation, “He turned quickly and stared at me with fear. I hadn’t realized that my dressing-gown was torn and dusted all over with plaster; my hair was white with it, and there was blood on my mouth and cheeks. ‘Oh, God,’ she said, ‘you’re alive.’‘You sound disappointed’” (Greene 80). Bendrix becomes aware that Sarah was almost relieved with the fact that he could be dead. He realized that she did not believe in herself enough to carry on and wished that this bomb could take all of her problems