In this section, the author is in a monastery trying to see how men without sex live. Norah thinks this will be a valueable environment to live in because it is a strictly an all male environment in which men live, work, and pray together. After living there for some time, the brothers and fathers suspect Ned of being gay because Norah lets some of her effeminate comments out on accident. As she continues to live with the monks they begin to open up to her emotionally, something that these men have been told not to do. When she reveals the fact that Ned is actually Norah the monks who know are surprised but accepting of her and feel more comfortable around her.
The tone of this section is much more serious and emotionally dead compared to the other sections. I would attribute this to the thick-skinned nature that the monks have. She goes into great detail about the way most of the men balk when asked about their emotions in monastic life, but when they do open up it reveals how sad, and in one case depressed, they actually are. The section generally focuses on the way that men are taught to act around each other.
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