ENGL 324 Lecture Notes - Dream Sequence
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Sidney harrins, policing a class society (1983) Dinah just all of the sudden required protection, when she"d done a pretty good job at being independent the rest of the novel. Mrs. willsson is just forgotten, it seems. A woman was the cause of the death of noonan"s brother. Fathers and sons: noonan took over the role of father for his brother. The op and the old man (the op knows that there will be repercussions, but he doesn"t seem to care) > the man knows that all the reports are bullshit. The father is law; he"s the one preventing the op from being even worse. Social performance in this novel: the old man knows what the op has done, but the op writes up his reports anyways, goes through the ritual, goes through the performance, so that the official record reflects no blemish.