English 1022E Lecture Notes - Reminiscing, The West Briton, Bodice
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Gabriel is always trying to brush the snow off himself: he favours culture > nature, or england > ireland. Looks into the snow after miss ivors and thinks of how much better it would be to be there. Gabriel is associated with snow, michael fluery is associated with rain. Reference to the snow melting in the last paragraph; Ireland is covered in snow, everyone is the dead. Complexities of the love relationship between gretta and gabriel. Gabriel: gabriel vs. freddy malins, both men in their 40s, similar size, freddy s description pg 561 (sleepy, drunk, mechanical repeated, described as one of the. Dead": associated with laughter, fun, story teller. Typical irishmen: foil for gabriel, gabriel . Mary jane"s music (pg 562: gabriel can"t listen and neither can the four young men who came in quickly, she is learned, but it is a dead ritual, just boring academy pieces, technically accurate, but no musical quality.