Several of the more recent posts involve concepts that I have been thinking about as I read this book, but I would just like to add a little bit more to each.

About the structure of the dialogue, it seems that more of Anna's thoughts are the sentences that blur together which remind me of "lost in thought" type of moment where she becomes so absorbed in her own thoughts that she isn't really paying attention to what is going on around her. Sometimes she is so lost in thought that she begins talking about what was in her head even if it is not relevant to the topic being discussed or even fully explained like in her conversation with Walter on p. 52.

Other characters in the book think Anna is strange and often tell her to be more sensible, this has already been stated in previous posts (and possibly class). Dr. Stuber commented on Alli's post asking why so many characters see something wrong with her. Anna grew up in the West Indies in a region, according to Hester, it was possible to go a week without seeing another white person. I see Hester as the stereotypical English woman who cares more about appearances and status than anything else. The way Anna described her father and uncle, they were not that way and in fact hated that sort of environment. When Anna describes how cold England is, I think she not only is referring to the temperature, but how people in England treat each other. So I agree with Melanie, not that she doesn't necessarily know the rules of English living, but she never followed anything like that before. And I am probably bias about some of Anna's more "radical" thoughts like wanting to be a black person due to the fact that as a child I thought people could become other races. I think that may have to do with the fact that at a young age I was exposed to many different racial groups just like Anna was around more black people than she was white, even having colored cousins who she gave presents to on Christmas (p.64). It is probably safe to say that none of the people she interacts with in England have had the same experience.