Quicksand - Chapter 13

As I was reading Chapter 13, I was both interested and appalled at what I was reading. "True, she was attractive, unusual, in an exotic, almost savage way, but she wasn't one of them. She didn't count at all" (Pg. 65). The way she was was being treated was more like an object instead of a human. They dressed her up, cut her clothes, and put make-up on her to "show her off" to other people. By the quote I shared above, it portrays that people are almost amused by her in some way and not taking her seriously. It was strange that the painter came in to 'look at her'. He decided that he wanted to paint her because she seemed interesting, but he didn't actually address her like a human being.