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Nancy Blake in love with Sylvia?

posted 9 years ago by Mchik
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I think Nancy is attracted to Sylvia because she is always bothering her, and she haven't no interest in the other girls.

But there are one thing that really impressed me: The scene in which Silvia took off his coat, Nancy saw her breasts and said, "Good Guns"

I do not know if it was common at that time look in that way a friend, and say the equivalent of "you have nice tits."

Nancy is considered different from others, not a woman or a female (Because a woman and females likes men). She is "What nature abhors" ... Now, at this point I don't think so "old maid" was unnatural. They were ridiculed, and people laugh at them, but nobody see them as unnatural. I think Nancy means that she is a lesbian, a woman who does not like men

I think Nancy's lesbianism is very marked in the film, as her obsession with Sylvia

[–] practicepiano 9 years ago

The "Great guns" is the beginning of the line "Great guns, what are you made up for -- the Seeing Eye?"

It is an exclamation of sheer dismay at Sylvia's bizarre blouse, with the eyes embroidered on it. It might as well have been "Dear Lord" or "Jesus wept" (neither of which would have passed the censors, probably).

There are certainly other hints that Nancy may be a lesbian, but that isn't one of them.

[–] eskridge 9 years ago

If anyone, Nancy is in love with Mary Haines. Remember how she quickly protects her from the snipers in the drawing room at the beginning of the picture. Nancy praises Mary as a woman, while Sylvia and Edith are merely "females" and dismisses herself all together as "frozen assets."