Garden of Shadows Themes

Garden of Shadows Themes

Love and Marriage

Olivia is a young, insecure woman when she meets Malcolm Neal Foxworth. Olivia is taller than most girls and she feels that she is not as beautiful. Olivia has had trouble finding men who can get past her exceptional height and fall in love with her. This causes Olivia to believe that she will never be married. Despite this, Olivia reads lots of romance novels and wants to find a man who can love her the way a husband is supposed to love a wife. Therefore, when Olivia meets Malcolm Neal Foxworth, a wealthy, tall, handsome man, she cannot help but fall instantly in love. Malcolm is the first man she has met who is taller than her and who seems to admire the fact that she has an education and opinions of her own. When Malcolm asks her to dinner, Olivia is...
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