Unconscious Remembering's and Proust
Proust uses drawn out monologues to convey moments of unconscious remembering's to the reader which point towards feelings of nostalgia and love. I found the narrators dialogues very captivating yet confusing at times. It felt as if his mind was jumping from one thought to another, or more like one remembrance to another as more senses awakened them within him. Remembering things stored away often feels difficult to do on command but Proust highlights that this can happen unconsciously through familiar scents or surroundings. I found his relationship with his mother to be very interesting. At first I thought it odd that he was so attached to her but then I remembered that as children we see our parents as our means of survival and I understand his desperate attempt to get her to come and kiss him goodnight. When we lose them in a store we panic because we know we do not have the knowledge or means to make it on our own. For him, he sees his mother...