JUXTAPOSITION!

About time! Throughout the lengthy Chapter 19, Ishiguro juxtaposes the old and the new Ruth. The author compares how the new Ruth is calmer and less easily provoked than the old Ruth. The new Ruth accepts when Kathy and Tommy gang up on her. Why juxtapose? By juxtaposing the old and the new Ruth, the author is able to explain what is different now and how issues were resolved. Juxtaposing the Ruths effectively showed Ruth's newly gained maturity. It's disappointing that Ruth died so young. She'd just turned her life around.