In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way : Analysis, Summary

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Swann's Way; in Search of Lost Time
Every person has ever fallen in love at some point in their lives, fallen in love with a person or something non-living. Falling in love with a person comes along with many issues that give you both happiness as well as make you sad. Some choices are hard to make, especially involving the person you have an affair with. Swann, the main character in the book, goes through all these tough times and is on the verge of giving up in life.
The major theme of the book revolves around love and betrayal. Swann is a homosexual who falls in love with Odette. However, he faces many problems in his love journey. The first thing is that he falls in love with a woman who has loved more than one man. He cannot give up on her, or maybe, for now, he is not planning on giving up their affairs, but this disturbs Swann a lot. This excerpt is from a time when Swann had gone over to Odette's house, but he was turned away and denied a chance to express their love sexually as they coded it "no cattleya tonight" after Odette claimed she was tired and not feeling well.
Swann left, but with suspicions of maybe, Odette was waiting for another man. "But, when he was in his own house again, the idea suddenly struck him that, perhaps, Odette was expecting someone else that evening, that she had merely pretended to be tired, that she had asked him to put the light out only so that he should suppose that she was going to sleep, that the moment he had left the house she had lighted it again and had reopened her door to the stranger who was to be her guest for the night." This brings in the theme of jealousy and insecurity. It was clear that Swann was insecure about the relationship they had. He feared to l...