ENG236H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Linoleum, Baluster, Miasma Theory
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Loss and mourning in p. d james" an unsuitable job for a woman. A death opens the book but its not shocking the tone seems to be extremely ordinary. Its establishes the death a good opening in a detective novel. There"s also a sense of uncertainty (cid:498)on the morning(cid:499) she depicts a fallen world less than what it should. The dynamic of older men and younger women. The intensity of exhaustion fatigue as if the world has given up. The staircase smelt as always of stale sweat, furniture polish and disinfectant. The walls were dark green and were invariably damp whatever the season as if they secreted a miasma of desperate respectability and defeat. The stairs, with their ornate wrought-iron balustrade, were covered with spilt and stained linoleum patched by the landlord in various and contrasting colors only when a tenant complained. (3) It was a relief to see that there was no need to wait.
