ENGL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Euphemism
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Wonderful nerves sudden flickers of antipathy and sympathy, red gleams fitful. Both are in and out of people"s lies (p120) First time the girl is outside of her job in a grocery store. You"ve no imagination, my dear (p120) first time speech is quoted directly in the novella: interrupting, and challenging what the girl believes about herself. Mrs. jordan"s incorrect; the girl does have imagination. It lets girl escape her dreary life but also sets up unrealistic expectations about her future. Major misunderstanding the girl has: she thinks that mrs. jordan is aiming to marry one of the wealthy, single bachelors. Is he mocking telegraphist for reading trashy novels and imagining the society folks she encounters as players in a romance or is she an excellent perceiver and able to write a story about them. Euphemism: indirect word or expression substitute for word considered too harsh or blunt .
