It makes sense. He wanted a marriage where he could just come home and relax, without putting any effort into a human relationship, and when that failed, he went to an emotionally immature and impressionable woman probably half his age who looked very much like his wife to compensate. The man clearly was pining after a simpler time and a woman much less sophisticated in a way that was childish and self-destructive.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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