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c. Spiritual Love
The time spent between Griet and Vermeer mostly took place in Vermeer’s studio, in private. She also assists her master by grinding things to
make colours and gives him suggestions about the paintings. By doing these things, Griet and Vermeer create paintings together and it is like as if they “make”
children together. While Griet and her master are sitting close to each other preparing colours, there seems to be unspoken love in the air. Griet is very happy
only if she just grinding things by his side. She feels warm only sitting by his side. Maybe Vermeer also feels this way.
It was very cold in the atticalthough there was the little fire he used for heating linseed oil or burning colours...
I did not mind the cold so much when he was there. When he stood close to me I could feel the warmth of his body. p. 116
The pearl earrings are also the symbol of Griet, who shows her love to Vermeer. They are the symbol of Griet’s love and spiritual love between Griet and
Vermeer. She wears the pearl earrings for him, the man that she loves. She does that because she loves him and she wants to use the pearl earrings. She wants to
have his master’s love. She even pierces her own ears to show her love to Vermeer.
I pulled the earlobe taut and in one moment pushed the needle through my flesh. p. 213
Just before I fainted I thought, I have always wanted to wear pearls. p. 214
... I did it for him. I got out my needle and clove oil and pierced my other ear. I did not cry, or faint, or make a sound.” p. 222
Griet is crazy of him. Her heart is also beating very fast when she is be with him. It becomes so after Vermeer inserts the earring in her ear and does not
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clear from her face that Griet wants him” p. 177. I gasped as if I had been holding my breath under water.
... He inserted the earring wire in the hole and pushed it through. A pain like fire jolted through me and brought tears to my eyes.
He did not remove his hand... He ran his thumb over my lower lip. I licked it and tasted salt.
… I could not think of anything but his fingers on my neck, his thumb on my lips. p. 221
She is still confused of her feelings toward her master. She does not completely understand her own feelings. She also does not know how she should
be feeling. Nevertheless, she is very sad when the painting is finish and Vermeer asks her to give them back to Maria Thins. She is broken heart because it is over
now, that he no longer needs her. She wants Vermeer seeing her hair again when she changes to her cap but he does not come to the storeroom.
“Take off the earrings and give them back to Maria Thins when you go down,” he added.
I began to cry silently. Without looking at him, I got up and went into the storeroom, where I removed the blue and yellow cloth from my head. I
waited for a moment, my hair out over my shoulders, but he did not come. Now that the painting was finished he no longer wanted me. p. 222
Griet is still thinking of Vermeer even though she has married with Pieter because Vermeer has been leaving marks in her ears, the tiny buds. Her heart still
beating fast when she sees him. The holes were long healed now. All that was left of them were tiny buds
of hard flesh. I could feel only if I pressed the lobes hard between my fingers. p. 236
At first it was very hard for me. When I saw him I froze wherever I was, my chest tightened, and I could not get my breath. p. 237
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d. Suppression
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