I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
“Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.”
“That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.”