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What I mean by “saleable” is the ability of attractive women to leverage that automatic attraction which gives them options not open to plain Jane Eyres. Though most use their attractions to facilitate advantageous career choices there are some who make, like the above lady, a disastrously wrong “market” choice which spirals into a self-destruct dead end literally like the lady named here.
Tess did eventually relent though didn’t lose her resentment & that led to a subsequent fatal choice too
“My impression from looking at the handful of online photos of Nuristanis is that the light-eyed girls are promising of growing up to be beauties, but their harsh lives tend to dim their luster.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHyloc1Vc5Q
Tess of the D’urbervilles (1998) part 16
Remember this scene well with Tess living the hard manual work life in the open fields & sharing a cold house with a friend & thought that the very reason men sought her out was the very saleable quality of her beauty which would not last long against the tough daily grind.
A working girl had only a short time to present herself before irreplaceable damage is done to the looks & figure that men always desire & will compete for