As he began to undress her, he was full of excitement while she was trembling within and trying to keep her feelings concealed from him.
She took him to the room and led him on to make love. Florence didn't want to let Edward down and felt too strongly bound by a sense of duty to make him happy. Thus, he didn't rush the matters that night and hoped everything would naturally unfold. He had kissed her in their initial days of relationship and she hadn't reciprocated like he expected. Edward had realised long ago that Florence takes time to get comfortable with being physically intimate. They are sitting on a table, having dinner and both of them are not sure what to do next. The book revolves around the night of their wedding where they anticipate the events of the night with opposite feelings of fear and ecstasy. Unable to confront her situation head on, she keeps quiet until her wedding day. She starts to believe that there is something wrong with her and thus, keeps her fears to herself. She feels squeamish with the whole idea of sex and doesn't know whom to confide in or what label to put on her problem. Florence has a deep fear about being sexually intimate with Edward as her whole being shudders at the thought of being, in her words, violated. However, as Ian McEwan digs deeper into their beings, I realised that the normal societal constructs that work for the majority in the world, could be devastating for a few. She plays the violin as part of a quartet and has been preparing steadfastly for her dream performance, while Edward has graduated in history and dreams of writing books. Florence and Edward fall in love with each other and theirs is a perfect story on the outside. It discovers the bond that the two protagonists share and what love means to each one of them. On Chesil Beach is an intriguing book as it opened my mind to what intimacy means to each individual.
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