Her successes always left an enduring impression. She loved to learn, create or take part, and then move on to something else.
-- Antony Penrose (chapter 1)

Importance: In Chapter 1, Penrose employs an assertive yet empathetic tone when introducing Lee's character and life. In this passage, he is compressing the scope of her experiences into neat, declarative sentences. He is also endeavoring to capture Lee's simultaneously passionate and mercurial nature. These lines thus introduce Lee to the reader and introduce Penrose's coming delves into her life and identity.

Man Ray gave her confidence in her own eye and contact with his Surrealist friends stimulated her imagination.
-- Antony Penrose (chapter 2)

Importance: Penrose asserts that Lee's relationship with the photographer Man Ray was essential to her success as a photographer. Man Ray's connections to the art world in Paris indeed offered Lee an organic throughway into the creative communities she came to rely upon throughout her career. The diction and tone of...