“This is because Ben is an old gardener and is often times stubborn. When he first meets Mary he tells her "We're neither of us good lookin' an' we're both of us as sour as we look". This is basically saying that they are both unattractive and disagreeable.”
the narrator has mixed emotions to doodle. how would he answer the question, why do we hurt the ones we love? the narrator might say that we hurt the ones we love because we have the power to do so or because we may not be thinking about anyone but ourselves.