![]() ![]() Intervention is, I acknowledge, never easy. ![]() All she wants is recognition from someone-from anyone-that her husband beats her. ![]() He sat and stood beside me all the time.” Paula doesn't want the doctors and nurses in the hospital to rescue her. “He helped me into Casualty,” she remembers, “almost did my walking for me. Being.”Īfter each beating, Paula's husband takes her to the hospital. For the next 14 pages, in slow motion, we see the defining, the formative act that, 20 years later, Paula still remembers, still analyzes, still tries to explain to herself. We learn the angles and corners of her life. We see Paula as a little girl, a teenager, a newlywed. What makes Doyle's portrayal of Paula so brilliant is that he does not show us her husband's violence until chapter 25. Paula Spencer, the central character of Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, is a battered woman. ![]()
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