ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Imagism, Distillation, List Of Narrative Techniques
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Greta unable to move past the paralyses of her mother"s madness, repeating her mother"s mistakes. p. 74: greta"s hatred and paralyses, psychologically trapped by her mother"s will and her memories of her past with her mother. Fear still consuming even after committing murder to end it. James stuck in his mother"s patterns of behaviour. Other characters: passivity and unwillingness to bring about change (paralyses) Felix: indifference to storm, refusal to accept suffering. Cup that angel left with him when she left: not touching the glass, not cleaning, not grieving or accepting the loss. Insincere sense of redemption: not willing to do the work. Theophil is the only one who is apart from the redemption of the others at the end of the novel. Ara: unable to change world, emotionally fixed, but sees the paralyses. Kip: stuck in the world defined by old lady + coyote, creating violence, reinforces status quo of the wasteland even though he is acting.
