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Flashcards by Reuben Veysey-Smith, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Reuben Veysey-Smith
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Business/employees | Aren't cheap labor they're people Shows she is constantly questioning and rejects capitalism |
| Class/status | I'd persuade mother to close our account - shows how at first she is like her mother and uses her class to get her way |
| Children | Don't go upsetting the child - she is viewed as a child throughout |
| Dress/clothes | It just didn't suit me at all - she is very materialistic and self conscious but this does change |
| Drinking | Purple faced old men - shows she is against it and is foreshadowing Meggarty as well as Eric |
| Government | You're ready to go back to the same old way - shows how she recognizes a change in society, foreshadowing Britain after the first world war |
| Love | I don't dislike you - shows she does like and respect Gerald but now she goes against her role and will not marry him superficially |
| Men | I'm supposed to be engaged to the hero of it - This shows she recognizes her position in society, and mocks it. Also the use of hero is ironic as it refers to war |
| Money | Is it the one you want me to have - at first she is very materialistic towards wealth, but does change |
| Property | But not cosy and homelike - the furniture can be a metaphor of the superficial nature of their engagement |
| Prostitutes | You went down to the bar for women of the town - shows she is aware and knows what Gerald is referring to |
| Status | We must not build a wall between us and that girl - She understands how we fit together and is drawing connections, going against the class system |
| War | Fire, blood and anguish - shows she is indirectly foreshadowing it |
| Women | Was she pretty - starts to show how she is similar to Eva |
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