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In the same chapter he distinguishes more clearly than before 'between the real Sarah and the Sarah he had created in so many such dreams: the one Eve personified, all mystery and love and profundity, and the other a halfscheming, half-crazed governess from an obscure seaside town' (367). His association of her with Eve suggests that he fears her - fears that, just as Eve tempted Adam into committing the act that led to their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, so Sarah may lure him to his destruction.
1 sawall this within five minutes of that meeting .... 1 tried to see worth in him, respectability, honour. And then I was filled with a kind of rage at being deceived' (151). Here, in tragic terms, Sarah has reached the moment of recognition. The French Lieutenant's Woman 37 In Oedipus Rex that moment comes when the messenger arrives to reveal to Oedipus that he is unwittingly guilty of incest and patricide. Though in many ways an admirable man, Oedipus has made an unintentional mistake, and must suffer for it accordingly.
Yet, as she tells her story, she clearly has an effect on him: she makes him feel uncomfortably as though he is playing a role rather than living his life as a unique human being. As he listens to her, he feels like a stranger to himself. Eventually he has a glimpse of the 'ideal world' (154) she inhabits, where it is possible for her to experience a 'freedom' that the conventionally bourgeois individual 'cannot understand' (153). Charles has not achieved existential authenticity by the time he chooses between Sarah and Ernestina, but in the chapter immediately following the first ending, he suddenly realises that he has 'a choice'.
