Earnest post 2

As I was reading, I couldn't help but notice the hilarious side story going on between Miss Prism and Chasuble. Their banter and masked flirtation regarding marriage gives rise to some hilarious quotes about the institution. Ms Prism states that "No married man is ever attractive except to his own wife", and that even this only depends on the "intellectual sympathies of the woman" (26). Based on this, and her later statement that men "who live entirely for pleasure usually are [single]" (27), We can begin to view Miss Prism as a sort of shrewish, bitter woman. She clearly loves Cecily, but she must have had a bad romantic encounter in her past to make such blatant snipes at single men and the institution of marriage.