Last sentence on page 27

“And I heard Belle and Hoinck shouting and making love and crying all night.” 

In this sentence, Le Sueur describes the relationship between Belle and Hoinck.  It is a random relationship with emotions flying high and from all different directions.  I also got the feeling that it was obvious and many people knew the relationship between Belle and Hoinck was unstable.  She blended the sentence in with the entire page 27 although there is very little resemblance and relevance among the sentences.  Page 27 describes and tells the reader all the confusion and thoughts that are running through her head while she is lying on the couch.  How Le Sueur places that sentence tells me, the reader, that it is obvious that Belle and Hoinck have a very confusing yet intriguing relationship.  Le Sueur mentions three big emotions that are on different ends of the spectrum.  By doing that it gives me a sense that there relationship is going to play a role later in the story.  

How Le Sueur words and structures this sentence is also interesting.  Rather than naming the three different emotions and feelings off using commas in a list form, she uses “and” after the brief description of each emotion.  By doing that it compelled me to believe that although those three emotions are woven together, they still are not combined.  By using “and” twice instead of commas tells me that when Belle and Hoinck are happy they are only happy, when they are sad, they are only sad and when they are angry they are only angry.  Just by using “and” instead of a comma can change the meaning of that sentence. When I first read the sentence I assumed they just had a complex relationship but after thinking about it, there relationship is not complex, it is simple.