Corley halted at the first lamp and stared grimly before him. Then with a grave gesture he extended a hand towards the light and, smiling, opened it slowly to the gaze of his disciple. A small gold coin shone in the palm.
What Corley wants to bring off is never made clear until he presents the coin. It is a surprise. His grim expression indicates he were guilt. Anyway, even though Corley feels guilty, it does not make any differences that he keeps the money.
He did not like to say even to himself that her face was no longer beautiful, but he knew that it was no longer the face for which Michael Furey had braved death.
The face now is not "the face for which Michael Furey had braved death" any more. A man died for her love. Gabriel knew that they aged. He thought about mortality and his two lovely old aunts. And he would return to the house for their funerals in the near future. Finally, he felt the shadow of mortality.
They would think that he was airing his superior education. He would fail with them just as he had failed with the girl in the pantry. He had taken up a wrong tone. His whole speech was a mistake from first to last, an utter failure.
This sentence is very interesting. After the failure of communicating with Lily, what should have been pleasant became unpleasant.
“Come!” All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her. She gripped with both hands at the iron railing. “Come!” No! No! No! It was impossible. Her hands clutched the iron in frenzy. Amid the seas she sent a cry of anguish! “Eveline! Evvy!”
Her family life is anything but warm which there is no ungrateful children, but ungrateful parents. The story focuses on the theme of escape. Certainly, she has every reason to leave. However, poor Eveline finds herself unable to move forward because she lacks the courage to make the leap that will free her from oppression. She's too scared to leave Ireland, and sees Frank as a possible danger actually.
Maria gave the bag of cakes to the eldest boy, Alphy, to divide and Mrs. Donnelly said it was too good of her to bring such a big bag of cakes and made all the children say: “Thanks, Maria.”
Poverty is a motiff. This piece of sentences is especially painful because the price was such an exorbitant one, considering Maria is poor. Here we can see a touching scene that a women is trying to treat her loved ones despite her limited standard of enconomy.
On the last flight of stairs he passed Jack Mooney who was coming up from the pantry nursing two bottles of Bass. They saluted coldly; and the lover’s eyes rested for a second or two on a thick bulldog face and a pair of thick short arms. When he reached the foot of the staircase he glanced up and saw Jack regarding him from the door of the return-room.
We can infer Jack Mooney, Polly's brother, is also aware of what is going on. Fear of Jack also plays a small part in Mr. Doran's final decision. The Mooneys manipulates the Mr. Doran using his fear of scandal.
“Come down, dear. Mr. Doran wants to speak to you.”
The end is a marriage based on bullying and manipulation. Somehow it, however doesn't seem to matter to Polly. Mrs. Mooney manipulates Mr. Doran, using his concern for job and his fear. We can easily infer what Mr. Doran would have to do because of the heavy pressure from Mrs. Mooney.
“Come down, dear. Mr. Doran wants to speak to you.” Then she remembered what she had been waiting for.
The Mooneys families are unbothered that the marriage is based on trickery. Mrs. Mooney manipulates Mr. Doran, using his concern for his job and his fear of scandal. We know what Mr. Doran would have to do because of the heavy pressures from Mrs. Mooney.
I lingered before her stall, though I knew my stay was useless, to make my interest in her wares seem the more real. Then I turned away slowly and walked down the middle of the bazaar.
The boy feared he might not have been able to go at all. When he finally arrived, the bazaar ends nearly. His fantasies about the bazaar and buying a gift for the girl are revealed as ridiculous. His anticipation of the event provided him with a pleasant fantasy, reality, however, is much harsher.
Segouin, perhaps, would not think it a great sum but Jimmy who, in spite of temporary errors, was at heart the inheritor of solid instincts knew well with what difficulty it had been got together.
The friendship of Jimmy and Segouin can be attributed to Segouin's super wealth to a large extent.
His father, who had begun life as an advanced Nationalist, had modified his views early. He had made his money as a butcher in Kingstown and by opening shops in Dublin and in the suburbs he had made his money many times over. He had also been fortunate enough to secure some of the police contracts and in the end he had become rich enough to be alluded to in the Dublin newspapers as a merchant prince.
Is it a kind of sarcasm? Jimmy's father became more conservative so quickly as his family's wealth ascent that he obviously cares about his own wealth much more.
Tiresome old red-nosed imbecile
The narrator is a child, as opposed to an adult with many years' experience. He hates the old man. Old Cotter thinks no child should be spending so much time with a priest; such a friendship might unduly influence an impressionable youth, when he should be playing with boys of his own age.
Old Mr. Neave stared at his youngest daughter; he felt he had never seen her before.
Mr. Neave recognized he did not know about his daughter. Why they call his family a ideal family is he earned a bourgeois life of luxury through successful business. It appears ideal, however not as happy as it looks from outside. He is disconnected with his families. And he is too old to fulfill his intention to prove himself worthy of his families’ attention.
“You don’t mind, John, do you?” she asked. “You don’t—It’s nothing to do with you and me.”
Janey knew Mr. Hammond would be jealous of her relation with the young man. Why the young man died in her arm? Had they have affairs? The writer didn't mention. The marriage seems not very happy though Mr. Hammond loves Janey truly. But the way of love is the desire for possession.
the fat man squeezed her closer still, as if he really was sorry for that poor heart
Before the ball, Leila has a illustration, but the fat man destroy the illustration by harmful words. Leila has an unconfident adolescence while the fat man live in distorted world. It reminds that whether the floor really “beautifully slippery”?
hag
Their interaction illustrates the inequality between classes and the gender stereotypes, portraying the literary gentleman as a lazy, entitled bachelor who takes pleasure in admonishing Ma Parker, women, who he thinks is below his class. Referring to her as a “hag” he takes advantage of needs for employment and dirties the house every week only to have Ma Parker clean it.
“I’m sorry, darling,” said Mrs. Raddick.
Mrs. Raddick, as a careless mother is a reflection on the young girl’ strong personality. So is other characters in the story.
He’s only staying until to-morrow evening.
Everyone views William as an intruder upon their time, and feels they could not behave in the way they wanted to with him around. Isabel said William would only be there for one day and ask them to be nice to him. What a sympathetic man William is!
Father would never forgive them.
Daughters are used to follow what their parents told them. Quite normal things like burying their father makes them worried. They are afraid that their father would scold them for burying him, fearing that he would look gloomy and violent when they see the funeral expenses bill. It shows the girls are incompetent and dependent in a kind of sarcasm.
“Mother, a man’s been killed,” began Laura. “Not in the garden?” interrupted her mother. “No, no!” “Oh, what a fright you gave me!” Mrs. Sheridan sighed with relief, and took off the big hat and held it on her knees. “But listen, mother,” said Laura. Breathless, half-choking, she told the dreadful story. “Of course, we can’t have our party, can we?” she pleaded. “The band and everybody arriving. They’d hear us, mother; they’re nearly neighbours!” To Laura’s astonishment her mother behaved just like Jose; it was harder to bear because she seemed amused. She refused to take Laura seriously. “But, my dear child, use your common sense. It’s only by accident we’ve heard of it. If some one had died there normally—and I can’t understand how they keep alive in those poky little holes—we should still be having our party, shouldn’t we?” Laura had to say “yes” to that, but she felt it was all wrong. She sat down on her mother’s sofa and pinched the cushion frill. “Mother, isn’t it terribly heartless of us?” she asked. “Darling!” Mrs. Sheridan got up and came over to her, carrying the hat. Before Laura could stop her she had popped it on. “My child!” said her mother, “the hat is yours. It’s made for you. It’s much too young for me. I have never seen you look such a picture. Look at yourself!” And she held up her hand-mirror.
When conscience of human met something cannot be changed because of the great difference between classes. Is mother so heartless? She hopes all the guests who come to her home are noble to satisfy her vanity. On the contrary, Laura is still simple on her mind and kind of innocent. The coldness of Laura’s mother made her confused, which made Laura could not tell the right or wrong.
Laura shook her head. She was. Laurie put his arm round her shoulder. “Don’t cry,” he said in his warm, loving voice. “Was it awful?”
What I saw through the whole story is the difference of class contraries to reason and poverty of lower class. In my opinion, Laura had a kind of Epiphany about life, society and death from What I saw through the whole story is the difference of class contraries to reason and poverty of lower class. In my opinion, Laura had a kind of Epiphany about life, society and death from the death of young man.
By the mere worldly mind my position towards Rachel might have been viewed as presenting difficulties of no ordinary kind. I had reckoned on leading her to higher things by means of a little earnest exhortation on the subject of her marriage. And now, if she was to be believed, no such event as her marriage was to take place at all. But ah, my friends! a working Christian of my experience (with an evangelising prospect before her) takes broader views than these. Supposing Rachel really broke off the marriage, on which the Ablewhites, father and son, counted as a settled thing, what would be the result? It could only end, if she held firm, in an exchanging of hard words and bitter accusations on both sides. And what would be the effect on Rachel when the stormy interview was over? A salutary moral depression would be the effect. Her pride would be exhausted, her stubbornness would be exhausted, by the resolute resistance which it was in her character to make under the circumstances. She would turn for sympathy to the nearest person who had sympathy to offer. And I was that nearest person–brimful of comfort, charged to overflowing with seasonable and reviving words. Never had the evangelising prospect looked brighter, to my eyes, than it looked now.
Miss Clack is a terrible hypocrite, having disguises for her true motivations. It appears so noble, so religious, but actually she is jealous.
In those two words she accepted him!
Miss Clack is so interested in the relationship between Rachel and Godfrey. In a long paragraph of confession until Rachel accepted Godfrey, I can see Godfrey is a hypocritical man. Feeling so pity that they are going to engaged.What a villain having his day.
THE SERPENT AT HOME
Is this a novel ? I thought, according to the religion, reading novels is a secret thing.
When the Christian hero of a hundred charitable victories plunges into a pitfall that has been dug for him by mistake, oh, what a warning it is to the rest of us to be unceasingly on our guard! How soon may our own evil passions prove to be Oriental noblemen who pounce on us unawares!
Miss Clack thinks Mr. Godfrey is a victim. From her point view, she rather think those Indians are the criminals. British is higher-class, and Indians are bad people, perhaps because of the colonial ruling. Mr. Godfrey is not that suspicious, though his things are scattered and his room is in a mess.
My wealthy relative–would that I could add my spiritually-wealthy relative!
Clack thought Franklin is not as spiritually-wealthy as her.
Evening Hymn
Miss Clack is religious, religion would be a motif of her narrative.
“Suppose you discovered that woman to be utterly unworthy of you? Suppose you were quite convinced that it was a disgrace to you to waste another thought on her? Suppose the bare idea of ever marrying such a person made your face burn, only with thinking of it.”
Loving is a loop in the story. I am not sure whether Godfrey's love to Rachel is real or not. As far as I read, only feedback of Rachel is getting rid of the entanglement.
is the paint-stained dress a petticoat or a night-gown? or is it something else which there is a reason for preserving at any risk? Mr. Betteredge, if nothing occurs to prevent it, I must go to Frizinghall to-morrow, and discover what she bought in the town, when she privately got the materials for making the substitute dress. It’s a risk to leave the house, as things are now–but it’s a worse risk still to stir another step in this matter in the dark. Excuse my being a little out of temper; I’m degraded in my own estimation–I have let Rosanna Spearman puzzle me.
The biggest clue or maybe the only one to the case is paint- stain. Reading the detective's thoughts in a detective novel is quite interesting. We all know, as a reader, Sergeant is the most potential man to solve the case, but we cannot believe what he thought because the writer always mislead the way to the truth to make a detective novel more interesting.
“The ladies’ committee-man, father,” says Penelope. “A nasty sly fellow! I hate him for trying to supplant Mr. Franklin!”
It is easy to see Rachel loves Franklin, though Betteredge thought Godfrey is better than Franklin. And the refusal indicate how deeply Rachel loves and Franklin cannot be supplanted even a seeming better man come.
“Have you seen anything of the Indians?” “Not a glimpse.” With that answer
The clue of worrying the safety of the Diamond just indicate the missing of Diamond.
“NOBODY HAS STOLEN THE DIAMOND,”
In Sergeant Cuff's opinion, it seems that Rachel herself put the diamond somewhere out of sight. And according to her strange behavior, she seems suspicious. After all, it is just a guess, maybe the writer released a fake clue.
In Sergeant Cuff's opinion, it seems that Rachel herself put the diamond somewhere out of sight. And according to her strange behavior, she seems suspicious. After all, it is just a guess, maybe the writer released a fake clue.