The Malayan-Woman Essay

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The Malayan-Woman is Guy's longstanding affair. He had 3 children with her, lived with her for about ten years, and concealed her from Doris. After she appeared more and more often, Doris realized the truth and left Guy because she couldn't come to grips with the situation. The Malayan-Woman moved into Guy´s house again and resumed the affair of them both. The Malayan-Woman is depicted as an enigmatic figure with dark eyes, dark hair and a dark skin. She never speaks (maybe because Guy doesn´t allow her to speak) and seems very intimidated by Guy. Although Guy is just taking advantage of the Malayan-Woman, she still stays with him which shows us some kind of conscientiousness. (Julian Hölzer) Doris is the wife of Guy and is one of the three main characters. She married Guy in England and went with him to the British outpost in Malaysia, where the story takes place. She is described as a young, pretty woman with broun eyes and short hairs. When Doris is together with her man, she is happy and well tempered. She live there with him a very well organised and recorded life. Although, they live in an outpost in Malaysia, they live more or less the british lifestyle. In contrast to Guy, who was in Malaysia already before their marriage, Doris can not undestand the Malaysian way of life and so, she also can not accept it, when it becomes clear, that Guy had a affair with a native woman and has three children with her. She doesn`t want live with him as wife any longer. She can not kiss him, because she knows, that he kissed a native woman before! But although, she can not accept this, she is still friendly and polite to Guy and doesn` want make him unhappy. (Diana) Guy is the leading character; he is a little, fat man and 29 years of age. He was born in Sembulu, and his father, who served under the second Sultan, was British. Guy, who has lived all his life in
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