While Aimee does not appear to change very much throughout the text, she is the one who makes the discovery that Lily's marriage is real and rushes around trying to help Lily and her prospective lover. Aimee is also the one who faces the conflict most directly, as she discovers the identity of the man that Lily plans on marrying and has to try to stop the train. At the end, it is Aimee again who realizes that Lily has left her hope chest on the train, and she feels sadness for her.
<u>Lily also does not appear to undergo significant change, and she does not speak very much for herself. However, she gets the reader's real sympathy because of the way she is pushed around. When the other women come to tell Lily she is going to Ellisville, she is pathetically packing her tiny hope chest. When the women discover that the man is real and try to get Lily off the train again, Lily begins to cry and is confused at the change that the women have now pushed her into. </u>
it could be stated that the connection between this two parts might be related to the role of women in the Middle Ages. In the prologue, the woman is described as being swathed in textile and "textere". this might should the connection between "cloth and "text" at that time. The wife seems to be good at "spinning a tale" she is also good at "spinning cloth".
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