In this second part of her essay, the author expands on the element of conversion in the physical ailments of both Moran and Molloy and on the sexual imagery that accompanies their various disabilities. This sexual imagery is found to be feminine. In both cases the illness is a defensive reaction: in Molloy's case an attempt to deny any sexual feeling for the mother by identifying with her, and in Moran's case an attempt to deny a wish for passion and sexual intercourse. In both characters, then, there is latent homosexuality. This analysis allows the author to make some interesting points regarding repression of sexual impulses, uncertainty of sexual identity, and regressive behavior in the two parts of the novel. Yet the essay remains incomplete, partly because it never really puts together the many separate psychological points and partly because the psychological points are considered in isolation from all other levels of meaning in the novel.