"It was the same mirror I'd gazed into as a child, then as a girl, then as a youth, half woman, half girl."
Educated by Tara Westover
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What does "half woman" mean? (For example: A girl that has boyfriend?)
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What does "half girl" mean?
Would you please explain it to me?
Note:
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The speaker is about 25. She has a boyfriend but she is not
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There is another text that contains the same phrase:
"The old man went back to his room and, sinking into his chair,
covered his eyes with his hands and sat as if lost in thought—and
memories. And, strangely enough, it was not of the young man he was
thinking, but of a very beautiful woman, half woman, half girl,
with black hair and brilliant eyes, with the blood of the South
mantling in her cheeks, with the fire of the South, passionate,
impetuous, uncontrollable, in eyes and cheek; a woman of fire and
strong will, hard to understand, impossible to control; a woman to
make or wreck a man's life. The woman whose vision rose before the old
man, who sat, a bowed and desolate figure, in his chair, had wrecked
his."
The Woman's Way (Esprios Classics) By Charles Garvice
Best Answer
The text has nothing to do with whether she has a spouse or boyfriend. She's referring to back to a past time when she was a youth, which is a noun meaning "a young person between adolescence and maturity."
The phrase "half woman, half girl" is a poetic way of saying that as a youth, she was not yet an adult, but not a child either. There were probably some ways in which she felt similar to an adult and other ways she felt similar to a child.