- Mikey6305цитирует2 года назад
Tony had been living with Jock for the last three weeks. Mrs. Rattery had gone to California and he was grateful for company. They dined together most evenings. They had given up going to Brat’s; so had Beaver; they were afraid of meeting each other. Instead Tony and Jock went to Brown’s, where Beaver was not a member. Beaver was continually with Brenda nowadays, at one of half a dozen houses.
Mrs. Beaver did not like the turn things had taken; her workmen had been sent back from Hetton with their job unfinished.displacement from his home hetton, showing how the affair is pushing him out hof his own life, an dthe sense of noramlcy for him gone, hes not even aware of teh full exetent
his gratitude hows hoe he is feeeling emotionally, looking for the companisonshipo he lost from Brenda in someone else,
theres a tension an dawkwardness, asthey are trying o above beaver, affiar created a rift in his social relationships asw ell
mrs beaver tsill concrened with buisness, she is not concrend with the morality but rather the dsturbance to her work. - Mikey6305цитирует2 года назад“You just wait a few weeks,” he had said. “Brenda will come back. She’ll soon get sick of Beaver.”
“But I don’t want her back.”
“I know just how you feel, but it doesn’t do to be medieval about it. If Brenda hadn’t been upset at John’s death this need never have come to a crisis. Why last year Marjorie was going everywhere with that ass Robin Beaseley. She was mad about him at the time, but I pretended not to notice and it all blew over. If I were you I should refuse to recognize that anything has happened.”
Marjorie had said, “Of course Brenda doesn’t love Beaver. How could she?… And if she thinks she does at the moment, I think it’s your duty to prevent her making a fool of herself. You must refuse to be divorced—anyway until she has found someone more reasonable.” - Mikey6305цитирует2 года назад“Oh… You wouldn’t think I had a little girl of eight, would you?”
“No.”
“She’s called Winnie. I was only sixteen when I had her. I was the youngest of the family and our stepfather wouldn’t leave any of us girls alone. That’s why I have to work. She lives with a lady at Finchley. Twenty-eight bob a week it costs me, not counting her clothes. She does like the seaside.”
“No,” said Tony. “I’m sorry but it would be quite impossible. We’ll get a lovely present for you to take back to her.”twenty-eight bob a week- comical alludes to her work
waugh is presenting the lower class as idk-early pregnancy and bad light ig
Milly is attached to the child compared to Brenda; Waugh is criticing the issue - Mikey6305цитирует2 года назадJock gave Babs ten shillings and he and Tony went home. Tony had not slept much lately. He could not prevent himself, when alone, from rehearsing over and over in his mind all that had happened since Beaver’s visit to Hetton; searching for clues he had missed at the time; wondering where something he had said or done might have changed the course of events; going back further to his earliest acquaintance with Brenda to find indications that should have made him more ready to understand the change that had come over her; reliving scene after scene in the last eight years of his life. All this kept him awake.
fragile, troubled, overwhelmed, burdened, acceptance; he is not going back to Brenda, trying to understand things
Depressed tone
Pitiable portrayal - Mikey6305цитирует2 года назадShe made an insignificant and rather respectable appearance.
“Sorry if I’m late,” she said. “Winnie here couldn’t find her shoes. I brought her along too. I knew you wouldn’t mind really. She travels on a half ticket.” - Mikey6305цитирует2 года назад“Baby, you do, if I have to get it myself. Won’t you two join us, or are we de trop?”
They went together into the glittering lounge. “I’m cold like hell,” said Baby.
Dan had taken off his greatcoat and revealed a suit of smooth, purplish plus fours, and a silk shirt of a pattern Tony might have chosen for pajamas. “We’ll soon warm you up,” he said.
“This place stinks of yids,” said Baby.
“I always think that’s the sign of a good hotel, don’t you?” said Tony.
“Like hell,” said Baby. - Mikey6305цитирует2 года назад“Yes.”
“You wouldn’t think she had a daughter of eight, would you?”
“No, it’s very surprising.”
“I didn’t know for ages. Then I was taking her to Dieppe for the weekend and she wanted to bring the child along too. Of course that put the kibosh on it, but I’ve always liked Milly just the same. You can trust her to behave anywhere.” He said this with a sour glance towards Baby, who was full of the right stuff and showing it.winnie Helps Tony's case
the inoSense of childen... what significance - Mikey6305цитирует2 года назадTony and Milly sat at the back. From habit and exhaustion she put her head on his shoulder and her hand in his. When they reached their rooms, however, she said, “Go quietly. We don’t want to wake Winnie.”
For an hour or so Tony lay in the warm little bedroom, reviewing over and over again the incidents of the last three months; then he too fell asleep. - Mikey6305цитирует2 года назадTony went into his room and took off his shoes, collar and tie, coat and waistcoat, and put on a dressing gown.
“You are greedy,” said Winnie, “eating two breakfasts.”
“When you’re a little older you’ll understand these things. It’s the Law. Now I want you to stay in the sitting room for quarter of an hour very quietly. Promise? And afterwards you can do exactly what you like.”
“Can I bathe?”dressing gown is Symbolic of intimacy
it's the law- historical contex - Mikey6305цитирует2 года назад“The very idea,” said various onlookers. “Does he want to drown the child?” “He’s no business to be trusted with children.” “Unnatural beast.”
“But I want to bathe,” said Winnie. “You said I could bathe if you had two breakfasts.”
The people who had clustered round to witness Tony’s discomfort looked at one another askance. “Two breakfasts? Wanting to let the child bathe? The man’s balmy.”His buisness has travelled
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