![]() ![]() ![]() He only becomes suspicious when Jordan reveals the Huntress’s links to the Nazis and when she installs dubious Mr. Given that the Huntress is beautiful and refined, Daniel admires her “as though he were admiring a beautiful porcelain vase” (356) and agrees to bring her into his family. (The Huntress herself is based on two real women, one a female camp guard. Daniel’s acceptance that such refugees are necessarily secretive means that he does not find anything especially suspicious about the Huntress, who comes to him with a false name, a child that does not resemble her, and her jewelry to sell. Quinn discovers and portrays women whose actions mirror those of the men more frequently given space in these books. In the early postwar years, the shop becomes a place where Daniel meets “refugees selling their last antique brooch or bit of silver - men with names they’ve obviously changed, women holding children who don’t look anything like them, people making excuses for their scars or accents” (186). ![]() The antiques store is the place where Daniel trades his all-American Red Sox cap and sportive talk for a three-piece suit and expert knowledge on what are likely European antiques. ![]()
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