Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Cone-Gatherers:
Social Class
- Chp1: Neil's attitude
towards LRC and her family
- "Yonder's a house with fifty
rooms...every one of them three times
the size of our hut, and nearly all of
them empty."
- "But it wouldn't have
hurt them to let us stay
in the summer-house,"
- Chp4: LRC's conflict between her Christianity
and responsibility as a landowner. And her
indecision about Calum and the deer drive.
- "He guessed that within
her was a struggle
between her Christian
sympathy...and her pride
as a patrician..."
- Chp5: Neil's anger at injustice
but he understands he should
stay quiet.
- "Those people
represented the power
of the world, and so
long as he was humble
it would be benignant."
- Chp6: Deer drive and LRC's attitude
towards Neil and Calum
- "LRC glanced towards the little
cone-gatherer with aversion."
- "LRC felt annoyed"
- "I am outnumbered.
Let them stay. But
please, for God's
sake...warn them to
keep out of my way"
- Chp8: LRC's reaction that to the
suggestion that they should have given
the cone-gatherers a lift.
- "This is no time for
playing Sir Galahad."
- "It's our car, dear boy. We
can please ourselves
whom or what we carry."
- Chp11: the Beach Hut
- "What is the meaning of this?"
- "A lifetime of frightened
submissiveness held it
down"
- "Men in their job must be
accustomed to rain"
- Chp13: Roderick's reaction to
his mother's attitude
- "There was room for us all, mother"
- "They are our inferiors"
- Chp16: LRC's change
- "She could not pray, but she
could weep; and as she wept
pity, and purified hope, and
joy welled up in her heart."