reader’s awareness that man must come to know his proper mate is situated in the necessity of resolving the central conflict of the narrative. The point is that the account in Genesis 2 not only suggests that man comes to know woman as his proper mate, but that he is also aware that this knowing is a quest and he intentionally participates by embodying that quest. Second, “embodying a quest” is just another way of saying that he enacts the process of knowing itself by participation.38 Because man