. A prime
             example of this is the relationship between Carl and Emma, she was
             the caring wife waiting at home, and he was the unsatisfied husband
             looking elsewhere for his sexual pleasures. Cheating and getting
             caught twice, although there could have been more times he got away
             with it. Another example is when Saint Quentin was in a restaurant
             with Oscar Wilde, these were two people referred to in Pilgrims
             journal, it is understood that he was Saint Quentin. As he looked
             around the room at the females he thought "Clearly, they were there
             exclusively to see to the mundane comforts of the clientele -- to bring
             drinks, cigars, ashtrays, pillows and to distribute fans, each one
             decorated with a female nude." (Findley, 283). This quote shows how
             much he thought of women; that they were only there to suit the needs
             of the men. Another very strong quote about women was from
             Leonardo Da Vinci, to Elisabetta Gherardini after she rejected the idea
             "Women are cowards -- connivers who go wild in the pursuit of
             riches. Anything for adornment -- anything for rings and chains
             and pins and shoes -- for silver, gold and silk -- for servants --
             palaces, horses, and power. Women use their bodies as the
             Medicis used their banks -- as vaults in which to accumulate
             wealth. Women are usurers dispensing loans for which a man
             This projects an extremely strong view on women, as he feels they are
             nothing but connivers. These strong views put forth the question of;
             Does the author put his own feelings through characters? This is idea
             is partly true, as indictated in an interview with Timothy Findley. He
             "I've known some women who've survived situations and lives
             that I can't think of a single amle friend who could have survived
             the same battering or whatever it happens to be. I just mean
             battering by circumstance. I think men have a more careless
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