But when applied to Kitty and Jenny, the parameters of traumatic memory are more difficult to determine. The trauma that they face is the forced reconstruction of their social identities precipitated by the economic and cultural shifts of the war, which they fight...
I perceived clearly that that ecstatic woman lifting her eyes and her hands to the benediction of love was Margaret as she existed in eternity; but this was Margaret as she existed in time, as the fifteen years between Monkey Island and this damp day in Ladysmith Road had irreparably made...