ENGL 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cyclamen, Blunt Instrument, Seabird
31 May 2016
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Was well-to-do ; snobbish attitude towards her. Mrs. golightly : - book from where the window comes from. Local flavour : - setting --- vancouver. Effects of the epigraph (of the book) : life is a difficult country and our home. " edwin muir, scottish poet. Uncanny : figure in the wood ash. Frontier : being on the edge of something. -- mr. willy is stuck in some way. Mr. willy as an island isolation. Mr. willy has escaped all the way to the edge of the continent to escape humanity. Mr. willy not wanting to play bridge. Mr. willy living in a vacuum/him liking living in a vacuum. The spectre : intruder in his mind. P. 198 : a storm would get up and the wind, howling well, would lash the window sometimes carrying the salt spray from a very high tide which it flung against the great panes of glass.
