So now Juliana Borderleau is certain that the unnamed narrator is in search Aspern's love letters to her and she meets with him and tries to get him to sign a six-month lease and he, incredibly stupidly, thinks she is getting greedy inspired by his initial offer to rent a suite. To us it's obvious where she's going: her interest is in building a life for her niece, Tita, and she is trying to keep the narrator there as long as possible in hopes of building a relation between the two. The question is does she really have papers to let him have in return or has he just been caught in a trap of his own making? again we see the essential James theme played out before us - the clash between art and love or between ambition and devotion There is mp question what J would choose but he's a smart enough writer to use the fictional premises to examine the consequences of decisions he would never make.
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