... explains a lot about the narrator herself. Firstly, is it interesting that the narrator mentions Dr. Soleander by his formal working title "M.D." and not by his common name "James". This indicates partly the existing power struggle between the narrator and Dr. Soleander and partly that the narrator considers Dr. Soleander to be very important - in private as well as in working life. In this way, the female narrator attaches herself mentally to Dr. Soleander, because he has shown her a way out of her ordinary lifestyle with unfulfilled dreams and inferiority complexes towards her elder sister. These inferiority complexes are never directly mentioned by the narrator but she reveals her feelings several times, e.g., "Even my older sister doesn't own any (cashmere) that I know of (...) and she has everything"2 and "I imagine a big white wedding that my sister can coordinate and finally be happy about!"3. ...

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