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Pinkie, Cubitt, Dallow, Prewitt & Spicer.
Brighton Rock Pt 4 Ch 1
- Pinkie
- "He said in a high broken
adolescent voice"
- youth, can't be taken seriously
- "He began to
weep"
- highlights P's youth. He isn't as
tough as he claims to be
- "He stood with
weak knees"
- (to Spicer) "have a good time
while you can"
- foreshadows events
- "The Boy put his hand up as if to
pat Spicer on the back and let it
fall again"
- "A passion of cruelty stirred in his belly. He put
his hand up as if to pat Spicer on the back"
- Cubitt
- We find out more information about Cubitt
- character development
- "Cubitt suddenly bellowed with
laughter, his large mouth wide,
his teeth carious"
- boistrous
- "Cubitt came out of a downstairs room his
mouth was stuffed with apple and he had a
broken penknife in his hand"
- common
- working class
- Spicer
- "Departure made him a little sentimental"
- soft
- realises his gang days
are coming to an end
- "Samuel them, Spicer and the Boy come across
the threadbare turf arm in arm like old
friends"
- false perception of P and Spicer
- (from Pinkie) "you get scared easily, don't you?"
- shows that Spicer is paranoid and aware of the possible consequences
- Dallow
- "Cubitt and Dallow quarelled unless Dallow went after Frank's wife"
- "Cubitt and Dallow wouldn't give her a glance"
- Prewitt
- "His yellow shaven middle aged face was deeply lined
with legal decisions"
- "He came into the room with a hollow
joviality, a dock-side manner"
- "The sympathy didn't belong it could be peeled off his
eyes like an auction ticket from an ancient flint
instrument"
- "He showed his tar tar
coated teeth in a fatherly
smile"