what point Gordimer is trying to illustrate through the contrast in “The Train from Rhodesia” between the description of the wooden figures and the description of the begging children.
You're welcome. I recommend you add more details about why she feels shame.
She realizes that she does not really love her husband. ?
That's a small part of it. She's a rich white woman who has bought a lot of these hand carved wooden animals. And yet, in contrast, the impoverished African children are begging for pennies.
