Book 3, Chapter 4, (Renascence) Summary

Thursday December 4, 2008 Clare = 37

Clare goes to her studio, two years later, she waits for inspiration to come; she tries to ease the difference between then and now and draws a self-portrait, which she holds to the window and perforates with thousands of tiny holes.

Book 3, Chapter 4, (Renascence) Analysis

Clare misses Henry to the point of not feeling any desire to continue as she has, her artwork suffers and she does not feel any creative surge without Henry in her life, she feels drained. The self-portrait is symbolic because it defines how Clare feels about being here in the present and wanting to be a ghostlike person, as she once perceived Henry to be. She also feels like less of a person than when she was with Henry, and therefore would like to become transparent or invisible.