Adolescent stories Flashcards
Eveline - opening
“She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired.”
Eveline - beginning of f.i.d
“Home!”
Eveline - priest
“never found out the name of the priest whose yellowing picture hung on the wall”
Eveline - public expectation
“What would they say of her”
Eveline - respect from others
“People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been”
Eveline - comfort in the familiar
“now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a whollly undesirable life”
Eveline - blissful ignorance
“She felt pleasantly confused”
Eveline - fantasy of escape
“he had tales of distant countries”
Eveline - repetition of the opening lines
“Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne”
Eveline - prison of duty
“her promise to keep the home together as long as she could”
Eveline - sacrifices of motherhood
“that life of commonplace sacrifice closing in final craziness”
Eveline - nonsense
“Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!”
Eveline -priorities of her relationship with Frank
“He would give her life, perhaps love too”
Eveline - protection of Frank
“Frank would take her in his arms, fold her in his arms”
Eveline - description of the boat
“glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes”
Eveline - God and duty
“she prayed to God to direct her, to show her what was her duty”
Eveline - Frank = trap
“He was drawing her into them: he would drown her”
Eveline - completion of her deterioration
“She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition”
After the Race - The Continent vs. Dublin
“ars careering homeward and through this channel of poverty and inaction the Continent sped it wealth and industry”
After the Race - clumps quote
“clumps of people raised the cheer of the gratefully oppressed”
After the Race - Jimmy’s father
“His father, who had begun life as an advanced Nationalist, had modified his views early”
After the Race - Jimmy’s warped priorities
“Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money”
After the Race - inferiority of Irish economy
“The mite of Irish money”
After the Race - description of the car ride
“The journey laid a magical finger on the pulse of life”
After the Race - mechanical metaphor
“The machinery of human nerves”
After the Race - pretence of Dublin
“the city wore the mask of a captial”
After the Race - gnomonic language
“No one knew very well what the talk was about”
After the Race - Farley has power vs. Jimmy’s lack
“Farley out of breath cried Stop!” “He wished that they would stop”
