ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Double Hook, East Wind
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The double hook & the wasteland: greta as lonely spinster devoid of sexuality, mrs. potter"s replacement ( death rising to the loin pg. 6), and wrinkled like a shirt on the floor of the earth (pg. 7: hills described by their flat ribs and protruding bones earth described as starved; images of death and / or starvation, pg. 28, nothing but the stems of the trees not a sturdy landscape: pg. 27, in the sky above evil had gathered its strength ; the sky isn"t just confining and grotesque, it"s also a repository of evil the massed darkness (pg. 21: the above images of landscape change throughout the novel, water isn"t creative, doesn"t bring life and rebirth, it"s drying away, pg. 5 the water was running low in the creek the water was drying away: water is powerless, its motion controlled by the land pg.
