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Beatrice envies Nyaguthii for her ability to attract men and wants to be like her. She thinks her own inability to attract men is because of her lack of money and because she is a poor girl from the country. She hasn't enough money to buy skin lightening creams or new stockings with "no ladders" (runs) in them. "Clothes? But even here she never earned enough..." In the beginning Beatrice doesn't see that she and Nyaguthii are both in the same boat, that an empty life is an empty life, no matter what you are wearing, that society and the class system are keeping her from having any sort of meaningful life. "My god, she wept inside, what does Nyaguthii have that I don't have?"

Beatrice cannot fit in with the urban people around her, people who frequent the barroom scene. Worldly city dwellers tend to look down on simple country folk, for one thing. Beatrice wasn't raised for the kind of life she is trying to live. "She was part of a generation that would never again be one with the soil, the crops, the wind, and the moon. Not for them that whispering in the dark hedges, not for her that dance and lovemaking under the moon..." Farmers are considered middle-class people. So she has made a transition downward from middle-class back home to working class or lower class in the city.

Life back home on the farm, where she was not a transplant, had meaning.

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Now, she wants a home and family like people had back home. "She wept late at nights and remembered home. At such moments, her mother's village in Nyeri seemed the sweetest place on God's earth." This is perhaps why, when the owner of the business where she works, wants her to have sex with him, she cannot bring herself to do it, even though economically it might be to her advantage. The owner is a hypocrite. He goes to church and does good deeds in the community but demands the girls who work there, sleep there too, "to use their bodies" and bring him more lodgers. He is little more than a pimp -- but "a respectable family man, well-known in Ilmorog." Meanwhile, he carries on a torrid affair with Nyaguthii, buys presents for her, and gives her extra privileges. He has more "class" than the women who work for him. He can make demands on them without punishment because he has the power, the money, and the status. Beatrice "could not, could not bring herself to accept him..." Beatrice's desire to attract.....

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