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Behind the Scenes Quotes 2
Karten in diesem Stapel (62)
- 1“gives George a big toothy grin ‘hello daddy’ she beams at him. If only she would teach me how to do that before she goes”178
Characterisation (Gillian) - 2"But no, nothing as simple as that for Our Lady of the Kitchen, who is pretending to dish out pork chops, mashed potatoes and carrots but is really shooting out steel tension wires from her fingertips . . . until the whole house is crisscrossed with the metal web of Bunty's thoughts"179
Magical Realism
Characterisation - Bunty - 3“This is a special occasion after all – the pantomime, Christmas, not to mention Gillian’s death”179
Postmodernism - 4“She's being very brave, rather like Debrah Kerr in “The King and I””181
Characterisation (Bunty)
Intertextuality - 5“”’She’s behind you! She’s behind you!’ Gillian yells with abandon (she means the wicked witch but I fear tha it’s sweet death in all her gauzy splendour”182
Characterisation (Gillian)
Foreshadowing - 6"It must have been doubly difficult for her to undertake this role, for although she's thirteen and arguably the most grown-up member of the family, it is Patricia more than anyone who mourns the way magic had drained from our world"185
Characterisation (Patricia) - 7"Patricia says, at last, shrugging her shoulders in that way she has of suggesting she couldn't care less about anything, although of course she cares terribly. About everything"187
Characterisation (Patricia) - 8“although we believed she was dead last night, it’s almost impossible to believe that she’s still dead this morning.”187
Characterisation (Ruby) - 9"'that's disgusting' Patricia says, with no reverence for Gillian's newly-dead condition"187
Characterisation (Ruby, Patricia)
Bathos - 10“I think Patricia and I shoud share Gillian’s presents but don’t say so because I know this isn’t the right attitude”187
Characterisation (Ruby) - 11"Sometimes you can hear Bunty crying in the night 'My Gillian, my pearl!" which I thought was very odd, because I'd never heard her call her that when she was alive. And anyway, surely it's me that;s the jewel of the family?"189
Characterisation (Ruby, Bunty)
Foreshadowing
Use of grammar (uncapitalised "p" ) to create meaning - 12“refused to let Babs, Clifford and Bunty leave the house before the scones were done”193
Characterisation (Nell) - 13“Clifford, Babs, what’s your name”194
Characterisation (Nell, Bunty)
Recurring motifs - 14“She was terrified out of her wits at the thought of being left behind”195
Characterisation (Bunty) - 15“a silence full of wretched disappointment but at the same time oddly peaceful”196
Characterisation (Bunty) - 16“was looking foreward to sobbing out her misery into a familiar pair of arms”196
Characterisation (Bunty) - 17“well, she wasn’t, was she?"199
Characterisation (Patricia) - 18“Come back, Gillian, all is forgiven. Come back, and we’ll bake you our beloved sister”199
Charactersation (Ruby)
Foreshadowing - 19“I swear you can hear the capital letters when Kathleen talks”199
Characterisation (Ruby, Kathleen)
Satire - 20“although He is meek and mild, He is also (inexplicably) part of the trio that can consign you to the Inferno”200
Satire - 21“After Gillian Era – 1960 AG”201
- 22“I set about increasing my word power”,201
Characterisation (Ruby) - 23“I pray so much – desperate, attention-seeking prayers to the lamb – that I develop sore knees”201
Characterisation (Ruby) - 24“as for spontaneous combustion – that’s just waiting to happen”204
Foreshadowing
Characterisation (Ruby) - 25“can be so confrontational he would swear black was white for the sake of an argument. Bunty would go further, claiming it wasn’t a colour at all, but a piece of furniture or a banana”.207
Characterisation (George, Bunty) - 26“sickness of the soul” - “hollow, Gothic tones, closing her eyes and putting on the kind of sublimely bored expression that the pre-Raphelites were always demanding of their models”208
Characterisation (Patricia) - 27“Is Gillian only counterfeiting death? Is she really just asleep and proving very hard to wake up?”209
Characterisation (Ruby)
Recurring motifs - 28“a health and safety nightmare of a meal for a woman in her chemically sedated state”.209
Characterisation (Bunty_
Tension building - 29how can time be reversible when it gallops foreward, clippoty-clop, and nobody ever comes back. Do they?”210
Characterisation (Ruby)
Intertextuality - 30“look like the Lone Ranger. In different circumstances this could have been fun”212
Characterisation (Ruby)
Intertextuality - 31“the Red Horseman of the Apocalypse is already galloping up th stairs of the Shop”212
Characterisation (Ruby)
Intertextuality - 32“Patricia swings herself off the windowsill and over the drainpipe in a very Robin Hood kind of way”,213
Intertextuality
Charactersiation (Ruby, Patricia) - 33“pulls me toward her, wrapping me in the shelter of her dressing-gowned arms and, for once, the invisible cord between us shrivels and shirrs to nothing as we bridge the three-foot chasm”.215
Characterisation (Ruby, Bunty) - 34"No lime tisane and madrilene for us in future years, but it was amazing what the smell of frying sausage could achieve"215
Intertextuality - 35“a purification, an ordeal that we survived and which allowed some change and renewal”215
theme of Purification
Characterisation (Lennox family) - 36“Racheal wouldn’t stir herself from a chair to say goodbye to Jesus Christ himself”218
Characterisation (Racheal)
Intertextuality - 37"you couldn’t have bad feelings about Albert, even when you tried”219
Characterisation (Tom, Albert) - 38“when he thought about the war, he had this funny feeling, as if his insides were liquefying”219
Characterisaton (Tom) - 39"teetering between the two worlds of innocence and experience”222
- 40“not a country we’re very well acquainted with in our family”222
Link to wife of Bath - 41“once Bunty has her teeth in a belief then she’s an absoloute terrier with it”,223
Characterisation (Ruby, Bunty) - 42"From the bottom of the ghostless stairs|223
Characterisation (Ruby) - 43“Come off it, Ruby! Romantic love’s an outmoded bourgeois convention!”224
Characterisation (Patricia) - 44“Wrong! Only you, that’s the only thing that’s wrong with me?”226
Characterisation (Bunty) - 45‘A curious feeling rises up inside me, a feeling of something long forgotten. It has something to do with the cold and the ice and something to do witht the water too”227
Characterisation (Ruby)
Foreshadowing - 46"Ruby? Do you remember -"228
Characterisation (Patricia)
Foreshadowing - 47“I have left a slice of birthday cake for Patricia on her pillow, contrary to Bunty’s strict instructions that she is never to be fed again”229
Characterisation (Ruby, Bunty) - 48“Bloody bourgeois pigs – come the revelution, you’ll be the first against the wall, Bunty Lennox!”230
Characterisation (Patricia) - 49“no-one has ever offered to swap this role with her before (you can see she’s tempted)”231
Characterisation (Bunty) - 50“She lets fall a hail of remarks of the “why can’t you be more like Clive Roper” variety”- “she no longer needs George to be like Mr. Roper because she is toying with the original model”.332
Characterisation (Bunty) - 51“what profiteth it a girl if she gains three Easter eggs and loses her sister?”232
Characterisation (Ruby) - 52“Howard, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Beatles, who have rapidly taken over from Elvis in our fickle affections”231
Characterisation (Patricia) - 53“I was there and, believe me, the woman who took that tulip was not my mother – that woman was a giggling confection of girlishness: charming, playful, spirited, sort of like Debbie Reynolds before Eddie Fisher left her”234
Characteriation (Rub, Bunty) - 54"Bunty turns to look back and after a slight pause says 'that was my mother' and the hairs stand up on the back of my neck . . . because i knew, with a certain of premonition, that one day I will say exactly the same thing"235
Characterisation (Ruby)
Foreshadowing
Recurring motifs - 55“looks uncomfortable, even more pale than usual and rather edgy as if she can’t sit still in her seat”.238
Foreshadowing - 56"George draws on his shopkeeper's stock of small-talk to keep Bunty amused"237
Characterisation (George) - 57“Albert had gone fishing with his pal Frank”242
Dramatic irony - 58“Finally goaded by embarrassment into giving them the money for new boots”243
Characterisation (Racheal) - 59“what a coward you are, Nelly!”244
Characterisation (Nell, Lillian) - 60“Nell wished she was more like Lillian”245
Characterisation (Nell, Lillian) - 61“I don’t think it’s very wise of our mother to defend her lover in public in this way”248
Characterisation (Bunty) - 62“a more alert man would have realised instantly that he was being cuckolded”247
Characterisation (George)
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