The Golden Bowl

What are the motifs in The Golden Bowl by Henry James?

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Maggie's maturity is an important motif in this novel. It is not that she is not mature at the beginning of the novel, but she has yet had any real hardships to deal with at this point. It is only at the point that she deals successfully with her husband's affair that she becomes a truly mature and beautiful woman in her husband's eyes.