The Cone Gatherers

The Cone Gatherers

1. Good vs Evil

   • Duror
     • Doll: ' He was from some gruesome other world where a child's toy became an obscene symbol.'
     • Deer Drive: 'He understood for the first time why he hated the hunchback so profoundly and yet was so fascinated by him.'
     • Rumours: ' I saw that imbecile exposing himself.'
   • Calum
     • Deer Drive: ' Screaming in sympathy, heedless of the danger of being shot, Calum flung himself upon the deer and tried to comfort it.'
     • Death: ' He hung therefore in twisted fashion, and kept swinging. His arms were loose and dangled in macabre gestures of supplication. Though he smiled, he was dead.'
     • Beach Hut: 'Didn't somebody say on the wireless that in the war-time everybody's equal?'

2. Theme of Class

   • Lady R.C
     • Religion and Class: 'Her contradiction between her emulation of Christ and her eminence as a baronets wife.
     • Beach Hut: L.R.C: 'After this war, the lower orders are going to be frightfully presumptuous.'
   • Roderick
     • Roderick's reaction: ' There was room for all of us mother.'
     • Cake: ' explanation that it was a kind of pilgrimage.'