Identity Quotes in The Price of Salt, or Carol

Carol and Richard are the proto-hipsters hipsters of the 1950s, aspiring to be nothing because somehow having no identity counts as having an identity.

Perhaps opposite identities attract, but Therese has to become more than just Carol's amusement before the two of them can have an equal relationship.

When Abby says this, we understand that Carol isn't a little frosty only toward Therese—she's this way with everyone. It's part of her stone-faced personality.