 Questions pertaining to homosexuality appear throughout the novel, particularly in the later volumes.The first arrival of this theme comes in the "Combray" section of "Swann's Way", where the daughter of the piano teacher and composer Vinteuil is seduced, and the narrator observes her having lesbian relations in front of the portrait of her recently deceased father.The narrator invariably suspects his lovers of liaisons with other women, a repetition of the suspicions held by Charles Swann about his mistress and eventual wife, Odette, in "Swann's Way".