Enduring Love

by

Ian McEwan

Jean Logan Character Analysis

The wife and, later, widow of John Logan, Jean Logan lives in the couple’s Oxford house with their children, Rachael and Leo. Jean is in mourning throughout the novel, an emotional experience that is heightened by her suspicion that her husband was unfaithful to her before his death. When Jean realizes that her fears about her husband’s fidelity have been misplaced, she wonders aloud who can forgive her now that he is no longer alive to do so.

Jean Logan Quotes in Enduring Love

The Enduring Love quotes below are all either spoken by Jean Logan or refer to Jean Logan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Importance of Loyalty Theme Icon
).
Chapter 3 Quotes

“I’ll tell you one thing it means, dummkopf. We’ve seen something terrible together. It won’t go away, and we have to help each other. And that means we’ll have to love each other even harder.”
Of course. Why didn’t I think of this? Why didn’t I think like this? We needed love.

Related Characters: Joe Rose (speaker), Clarissa Mellon (speaker), Jean Logan
Page Number: 36
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 24 Quotes

This breathless scrambling for forgiveness seemed to me almost mad, Mad Hatterish, here on the riverbank where Lewis Carroll, the dean of Christ Church, had once entertained the darling objects of his own obsessions. I caught Clarissa’s eye and we exchanged a half-smile, and it was as if we were pitching our own requests for mutual forgiveness, or at least tolerance, in there with Jean’s and Reid’s frantic counterpoint. I shrugged as though to say that, like her in her letter, I just did not know.

Related Characters: Joe Rose (speaker), Clarissa Mellon, John Logan, Jean Logan, James Reid, Bonnie Deedes
Page Number: 247-248
Explanation and Analysis:
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Jean Logan Quotes in Enduring Love

The Enduring Love quotes below are all either spoken by Jean Logan or refer to Jean Logan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Importance of Loyalty Theme Icon
).
Chapter 3 Quotes

“I’ll tell you one thing it means, dummkopf. We’ve seen something terrible together. It won’t go away, and we have to help each other. And that means we’ll have to love each other even harder.”
Of course. Why didn’t I think of this? Why didn’t I think like this? We needed love.

Related Characters: Joe Rose (speaker), Clarissa Mellon (speaker), Jean Logan
Page Number: 36
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 24 Quotes

This breathless scrambling for forgiveness seemed to me almost mad, Mad Hatterish, here on the riverbank where Lewis Carroll, the dean of Christ Church, had once entertained the darling objects of his own obsessions. I caught Clarissa’s eye and we exchanged a half-smile, and it was as if we were pitching our own requests for mutual forgiveness, or at least tolerance, in there with Jean’s and Reid’s frantic counterpoint. I shrugged as though to say that, like her in her letter, I just did not know.

Related Characters: Joe Rose (speaker), Clarissa Mellon, John Logan, Jean Logan, James Reid, Bonnie Deedes
Page Number: 247-248
Explanation and Analysis: