Question

Describe how Lavinia faced Helen, the ghost?

Answer 1

Lavinia’s meeting with the ghost was not as catastrophic as the narrator had expected it to be. He had feared Lavinia would be scared to death seeing the ghost. However, Lavinia looked at that apparition, that owl-eyed phantom, in plaid skirt and stiff shirtwaist, with hair skewed back and no powder on her nose, but she didn't swoon. A broad, satisfied smile spread over her face. She had thought she was the ghost of the beautiful Helen of Troy who was having an affair with her husband. But finding her to be an ordinary ugly ghost of some ordinary Helen, Lavinia swooned forgivingly into her husband’s arms.