Clare Kendry Quotes Flashcards
How is Clare’s letter described?
Out of place and alien.
Description of Clare’s lifestyle. Stepping..
?
Stepping always on the edge of danger.
How is Clare’s selfishness characterised?
Nothing sacrificial in Clare Kendry’s idea of life, no allegiance beyond her own immediate desire.
How is Clare described zoomorphically as?
Catlike.
What are the two sides of Clare’s personality?
Sometimes she was hard and apparently without feeling at all; sometimes she was affectionate and rashly impulsive.
What metaphorical/zoomorphic tendency is Clare described to exhibit?
She was capable of scratching.
What does Clare long to return to?
Pale life… bright pictures.
How’s Clare’s experience of Black Culture described?
Clare drank it all in.
How was Clare’s success at passing percieved by Irene?
Abhorrent thing successfully and had announced herself well satisfied, had for her a fascination, strange and compelling.
How are Clare’s eyes described?
Arresting eyes, slow and mesmeric.
What is notable about Clare’s smile?
The seduction of Clare Kendry’s smile.
What is Clare’s opinion on pregnancy?
Too hellish.
How is Clare perceived as different?
Sensation of gazing into the eyes of some creature utterly strange and apart.
What describes Clare’s insensitivity?
Innate lack of consideration for the feelings of others.
Clare’s selfishness/ostensibly overwhelming desire
What is the trouble with Clare regarding cake?
The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folks as well.
To Irene
How does Clare acknowledge her danger?
Really Rene, I’m not safe.
What does Clare say about motherhood?
Being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world.
How is Clare described in terms of strength?
Hard and persistent, with the strength and endurance of rock.
What are three negative adjectives to describe Clare?
Selfish, wilful, and disturbing.
What are four positive adjectives for Clare?
Exquisite, golden, fragrant, flaunting.
How is Clare’s intelligence characterized in relation to 18th century France?
She’s intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth century France would have been a marvellous setting for her.
How is Clare’s life described?
As if the whole structure of her life was not lying in fragments before her.
What is said about Clare’s presence?
One moment Clare had been there, a vital glowing thing, like a flame of red and gold. The next she was gone.
What does Clare express about her desire to return?
You can’t know how in this pale life of mine I am all the time seeing the bright pictures of that other that I once thought I was glad to be free of….It’s like an ache, a pain that never ceases.
How is Clare’s beauty described?
Her lips, painted a brilliant geranium red, were sweet and sensitive and a little obstinate. A tempting mouth. The face across the forehead and cheeks was a trifle too wide, but the ivory skin had a peculiar soft luster. And the eyes were magnificent! Dark, sometimes absolutely black, always luminous, and set in long, black lashes. Arresting eyes, slow and mesmeric, and with, for all their warmth, something withdrawn and secret about them. Ah! Surely! They were Negro eyes! Mysterious and concealing. And set in that ivory face under that bright hair, there was about them something exotic. Yes, Clare Kendry’s loveliness was absolute, beyond challenge, thanks to those eyes which her grandmother and later her mother and father had given her.
What does Clare acknowledge about her situation?
Really Rene, I’m not safe.
What is Clare’s view on motherhood?
Children aren’t everything…There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don’t seem to suspect it.
How is Clare impact Irene’s life described?
Above everything else she had wanted, had striven, to keep undisturbed the pleasant routine of her life. And now Clare Kendry had come into it, and with her the menace of impermanence.
