What did she represent to her?
Catherine represents, to her, another kind of tantalizing ideal.
But he must also have represented to her a kind of alternative patriarch.
The only way out for her then is to lose herself, body and soul, in him who is represented to her as the absolute, as the essential.
She called "Jesus Christ Superstar" a "masochistic revel for eight-year-olds," and, although she adored thirties comedies, "Chinatown" represented to her "something dialectically new: nostalgia (for the thirties) openly turned to rot".
A cynosure of everything forward-looking and ambitious in urban design, it represented to her, almost alone, the apotheosis of the "super blocks" that destroyed the "hurly-burly" of city life.
Narrator A identifies strongly with learning English, which represents to her something foreign, new and useful.
For Jeanette there is hope for change, and that is what the Walls family ultimately represents to her: hope that doing the skedaddle will bring happiness and betterment, and hope that one day the Glass Castle will be built.
Basically, he comes to Wendy through her dreams, it seems like at first, but he represents to her everything that she's seeking in life -- mystery and excitement.
Over murmurs of laughter, she spoke of her love for Lady Liberty's "grace and beauty," and defined what the monument represents to her: "welcome, freedom, hope".
