Miranda to improve the communication between herself and Clegg would to be not talking ruthlessly about Clegg’s collections of butterflies. Miranda describes the butterfly collection as “I’m thinking of all the butterflies that would have come from these if you’d let them live. I’m thinking of all the living beauty you’ve ended” (54 Fowles). Miranda doesn’t like these collections at all because she views them of ending a beautiful natural life that doesn’t deserve this treatment. But if only Miranda knew what us the readers knew that this was one of Clegg’s dearest collections to his heart. It would also be important to realize that if Miranda knew this information of how dear his collection was towards him, she would also realize that anyone