Never Let Me Go 12- Ruth's True feelings found in Norfolk

"'We know it, so we might as well just say it. If you want to look for possibles, if you want to do it properly, then you look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins. Look down the toilet, that's where you'll find where we all came from.'"

(pg. 166)

I don’t know if maybe I’m reading a little too deeply into this, but it seems to me to be ironic as to where Ruth breaks down and reveals her true emotions. What emotions had been lost inside her that she had kept hidden remained lost inside until they arrived in Norfolk, the corner of England that contained all their lost things. She always had little quarrels with people, mainly Kathy, but never to this extent. The way Ruth broke down here and snapped at Kathy and even Tommy was quite profound. Was Norfolk to be the place where they find the truth but also lose their friendship? Realizing that the person in the office building wasn’t Ruth’s possible made the five of them there generally begin to understand that they were not dealt the best cards in life and they just seemed to have to live with this. In addition to this, Norfolk seemed to truly help the characters find what they had lost, whether they were looking for it or not. Whether it was emotional in Ruth’s case, or physical in Kathy’s case, they both seemed to find what they had lost there when Ruth discovered her true feelings and Kathy found her old cassette. I’m curious to see whether this symbolic corner of England will play a deeper role in the rest of the plot.