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and although the Quartet concludes with the lovers apart,
the ending implies that they will quickly be united in
France; Darley's growth from depression to confidence,
his movement from the "dead level of things" to a fuller
participation in life spurred by love is, insofar as
the Quartet is concerned, now complete. This completion
concludes my plot summary of the Quartet relevant to
Darley's love affairs a.nd my representation of Darley's
growth with people.
To represent Darley's growth in art, I consider
the unusual relationship in the Quartet of sex, love, the
psyche, nature, and the artist. Briefly, the Quartet
argues that sex dra.ws the mortal mind away from depression
and towards love, that experiences in love are an essential
means by which the self grows, that the growth of the self
is contained in and reflects a cosmic growth process, and
that this entire process of growth is the broad subject
matter and area of particular insight for the artist;
this broad relationship is most easily understood by
examining comments about love, the Quartet's main subject.
In a prefatory note to Balthazar, Durrell identifies the
Quartet's "central topic" as "love" (B, p. 9), and the
Quartet contains many stories and comments about love.
Important passages about love and what love means in the
Quartet are provided by Pursewarden, the Quartet's matured
novelist, who, in his notebooks, directly addresses Darley,
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Fordham, Glenn Wayne, Jr. The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet", dissertation, May 1981; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330626/m1/22/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .