And as soon as the old people said, “Poor Emily,”the whispering began. “Do you suppose it’s really so?”they said to one another. “Of course it is. What else could...”This behind their hands; rustling of craned silk and satin behind jalousies closed upon the sun of Sunday afternoon as the thin, swift clop-clop-clop of the matched team passed: “Poor Emily.”
all this sort of whispering and gossiping about one person reminds of stories such as the crucible
her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really wer
a sort of foreshadowing
looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved fro
simile that includes a lot of imagery and it is not a cliche
Without his glasses, The Misfit’s eyes were red-rimmed and pale and defenseless-looking. “Take her off and thow her where you shown the others,”he said, picking up the cat that was rubbing itself against his leg.
the devil and a angel?
tops like a long satisfied insuck of breath
this is a really good simile for setting the tone
Daddy was a card himself,”The Misfit said. “You couldn’t put anything over on him. He never got in trouble with the Authorities though. Just had the knack of handling them.
maybe comparing bailey and his father?
Georgia but in Tennessee.
we're thrown back into the beginning where the grandmother wanted to originally visit tenesse or however you spell it
narl and Pitty Sing,the cat, sprang onto Bailey’s shoulder
the foreshadowing from earlier about the cat comes into play
She said the way Europe acted you would think we were made of money a
could this part of the legislation of the time during the cold war where the US send money to other countries to sway them away from communism
stomach hung over them like a sack of meal swaying under his shirt
really good imagery combined with the use of a smilie
ildren’s mother still had on slacks and still had her head tied up in a green kerchief, but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a
the difference in describing the way both characters are dressed, both are females but both are described using their clothes for personality
the children’s mother
at this point we haven't got the mother's name and it's been three pages does she have some sort of bigger role to play later?
brush against one of the gas burners
foreshadowing?
HE grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida.
straight off the bat sorting of hinting at something in the story or setting something up