Wednesday 29 June 2016

Chapter 9 (up to "L...a...m...o....r...n...a...")

True or false? Justify your answer with detail from the text.
  1. The beginning of this chapter brings us back to the narrative present, and to the old narrator´s walk along The Close.
  2. The old narrator reflects on the young Stephen´s change of roles.
  3. Mrs Hayward looks different. (Explain in what ways and account for the changes)
  4. She is compared to a beggar. (Why?)
  5. Mrs Haywards explains who the man in the Barns is.
  6. Mrs Haywards gives some new information about the man.
  7. She asks Stephen to go under the piece of corrugated iron to check if the man needs anything else.
  8. Mrs Haywards starts crying.
  9. Stephen thinks Auntie Dee was the first one to fall for the man, and that, later, Mrs Hayward took him away from her.
  10. Stephen feels responsible for what is going on.
  11. Stephen discovers adulthood and childhood are not that different after all.
  12. Mrs Haywards has to leave Stephen because Keith is calling her.
  13. She makes a comment on the perfume of the privets before she leaves.
  14. The privets have become linked to “Lamorna” in Stephen´s imagination.

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