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Kapa Posted 11 years ago
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Hello friends, I would be appreciate if you correct me on bold parts.

She was completely unaware that with one twist of the tongue she could plunge Jean Louise into a moral turmoil by making her niece doubt her own motives and best intentions, by tweaking the protestant, philistine strings of Jean Louise’s conscience until they vibrated like a spectral zither.

"protestant and philistine are the adjectives for the strings of conscience." It means the woman teased the girl's Christine conscience.

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Jean-Louise was a rebellious young woman, not a refined and cultured one. Perhaps she felt guilty about this and was susceptible to criticism.

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  • Jean-Louise was a rebellious young woman, not a refined and cultured one.
  • Perhaps she felt guilty about this and was susceptible to criticism.
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Jean-Louise was a rebellious young woman, not a refined and cultured one. Perhaps she felt guilty about this and was susceptible to criticism.
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Thank you for your answer, you don't think "protestant and philistine" are the adj of her conscience? I'm really confused with this paragraph. cause we have twi "by" which use in passive form. By making ........ and by tweaking ........
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Kapa"protestant and philistine" are the adj of her conscience?
No, they describe the strings.

You can sometimes play a person like a musical instrument - you know them very very well. You know what makes them happy, what makes them sad, what upsets them and what persuades them.

Your sentence is a figurative one, of course.

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Thank you so much for your clear answer.
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