Well I am reading this book for the second time for the sake of a class I am currently taking, and there is one thing which had confused me in my first reading, and still remain a bit uncertain about.
And that was the significance of the brushes which Dante had, in which it talks about how she had one brush of maroon for Michael Davitt, and one of green for Parnell.
Though I did some research on the two men and so I have the background information on who they were, but I do not see the significance of these two colors in relation to them.
As the idea of connecting maroon and green to Parnell and Davitt, had appeared more than once within the story.