ENG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Public Space, Irish Homestead, Eveline
13 Mar 2017
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Sister of friend: hero gets quest, journey to fulfill quest, complications, success and reward, family: uncle a drunk, upbringing: dark, oppressive. Games practice for knighthood: even playing, they"re all attacked by cold, mangan"s sister sexual maintains public distance. Doesn"t speak to her (medieval romance: throng of foes medieval imagery, description of older man looking back on memories, debate on if she actually spoke to him, or if it was a dream, doesn"t matter. England keeping ireland from getting what it wants. Eveline : masquerading as anti-immigration propaganda (feels subversive, trapped in dublin, p 34 3rd paragraph narration but un her head. Is this narrator or eveline: is she or isn"t she getting that fairy tale ending, if she leaves with frank, is she going to something better, frank seems nomadic. When she decides not to go, we"re heartbroken: frank represents escape, she rejects it, bottom line: we don"t know she can"t choose, neither can we.
