The Little Stranger Quotes

Page 1

The Little Stranger Quotes

Chapter 1

'The weathered sandstone edgings...like an ice...just beginning to melt in the sun'

'I wanted to possess a piece of it'

'I was like a man...wanting a lock from the head of a girl he had suddenly and blindingly become enamoured of'

'Ivy had spread'

'Weeds growing lushly up through the seams'

'The essential loveliness of the room stood out, like the handsome bones behind a ravaged face'

'the faintest stirring of a dark dislike...my pleasure in the lovely room was slightly spoiled'

Chapter 2

'old leather armchairs...both very scuffed and split at their seams'

'convolvulus-choked stone steps'

'its a sort of lovely monster'

'for if the house, like an oyster, was at work on Betty, fining and disguising her'

Page 2

Making links:

The supernatural - explained or unexplained

setting and place

oppositions - gender

oppositions - past vs modernity

oppositions - class relations

Madness

Repression (desires, emotions)

Death

Hauntings

Fear