The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A landlady is as complex and contradictory as a geometric shape that defies simple description yet balances out.
- In plain terms
- Landladies are hard to define but manage to fit any situation.
- What can you take from it?
- People often defy simple labels or categories.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we define people who change?
Another view
The geometric metaphor may confuse readers unfamiliar with math.
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