51). Ramsden reacts predictably, by becoming defensive, but Tanner shows that he knows Ann, "Ann will do just exactly what he likes. And what's more, she'll force us to advise her to do it; and she'll put the blame on us if it turns out badly" (p. 52).

It is fitting that Ramsden's role in the dream is the statue. During a discussion in Act III between Don Juan, the Devil, the Statue and his daughter Ana, the Statue says of his wife, Ana's mother, "when I married Ana's mother - or, perhaps to be strictly correct, I should rather say when I at last gave in and allowed Ana's mother to marry me - I knew that I was planting thorns in my pillow, and that marriage for me...meant defeat and capture" (p. 159).

Ann enters with her mother. She is a lovely young woman, full of expression and...
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