The Dark Glassesからの英文です。

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She looked at me, then returned to attend to the person in the shop, leaving the intervening door wide open. She was back again almost immediately. My examination was soon over. Mr Simmonds saw me out at the front door and gave me pleading unhappy look. I felt like a traitor and I considered him horrible.

Muriel SparkのThe Dark Glassesからの英文です。
Mr Simmondsは検眼士です。（she=Mr Simmondsの姉）
主人公は15歳ぐらいの女の子です。

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I felt like a traitor とあるのですがtraitorは”裏切り者”でしょうか？
（horribleは”ひどく嫌な”？主人公がMr Simmondsをそう思うのはわかるのですが）

なぜ主人公が自分のことをそのように感じたのかがわかりません。

前文は

：（主人公が検眼にMr Simmondsのお店を訪れた場面です）

You're quite the young lady, Joan," he said, looking at my new breasts.
　 I smiled and put my hand in my blazer pocket.
　 He was smaller than he had been two years ago. I thought he must be about fifty or thirty. His face was more freckled than ever and his eyes were flat blue as from a box of paints. Miss Simmonds appeared silently in her soft slippers. "You're quite the young lady, Joan," she said from behind her green glasses, for her right eye had now gone blind and the other was said to be troubling her.

We went into the examination room. She glided past me and switched on the dim light above the letter card. I began to read out the letters while Basil Simmonds stood with folded hands. Someone came into the front shop. Miss Simmonds slid off to see who it was and her brother tickled my neck. I read on. He drew me towards him. I put my hand into my blazer pocket. He said, "Oh!" and sprang away as the hat-pin struck through my blazer and into his thigh.
　 Miss Simmonds appeared in the doorway in her avenging white overall. Her brother, who had been rubbing his thigh in a puzzled way, pretended to be dusting a mark off the front of his trousers.
"What's wrong? Why did you shout?" she said.
"No, I didn't shout."

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回答No.1

SPS700 · ベストアンサー

１。I felt like a traitor とあるのですがtraitorは”裏切り者”でしょうか？

　はい、そうです。

（horribleは”ひどく嫌な”？主人公がMr Simmondsをそう思うのはわかるのですが）

２。なぜ主人公が自分のことをそのように感じたのかがわかりません。

　主人公は大人とは事を荒立てたくない穏やかな人柄です。しかし検眼士のセクハラをとめるには、何か手を打たなくてはならなかった。

　検眼士の姉さんからは誘惑の嫌疑がかかっている、仕方なしに髪飾りの針で撃退はしたものの、誰も敵は作りたくなかった、そこで「裏切者」のような気がしたのでしょう。

お礼

なるほど、主人公はMr Simmondsを嫌っていながらも彼と敵対関係にはなりたくなかった、という心理状態だったのですね。
今までの内容から主人公の性格をイメージした上で考察して頂きまして、ありがとうございます！