Passage Summary: People say this author ignores morality, but she actually writes about emotional crises, which are basically moral dilemmas in disguise.

Conclusion: The criticism that Colette's novels are indifferent to important moral questions is unjustified.

Reasoning: Her novels depict major emotional crises, and these crises almost always raise important moral questions.

Analysis: The author assumes that if a book depicts an emotional crisis that raises moral questions, the book itself cannot be indifferent to those questions. There is a gap between the subject matter (crises that involve morality) and the author's treatment of that subject. The argument needs to assume that portraying a situation where moral questions arise is sufficient to count as being 'concerned' with those questions. If an author could write about a crisis but remain totally indifferent to its moral implications, the argument would fail.