DAN 245 Chapter 10: Week 10 Reading 5: “From the Ballroom to Hell”
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Dan 245 textbook notes: week 10 reading 5. Assignment: reading posted on blackboard: from the ballroom to hell by thomas a. When she wakes up, she is mortified, but thinks the man might ask to marry her. He does not, and she sinks lower and lower in her impurity until society shuns her and she becomes a prostitute the man is not shunned at all, and he continues to dance with beautiful young women. Faulkner knows hundreds of cases for which his example of the young girl is true in real life. He claims that 2/3 of girls who are ruined fall through the influence of dancing. One reason is because the waltz is an arousing dance another reason is that there are fiendish men who hang around the dance schools and ballrooms for the sole purpose of attracting and bedding young women.
