HoM CLASS Flashcards
colour crowd
1.1 Lily has a “vivid head, relieved against the dull tints of the crowd” and a purity of tint
Rosedale outcast by society
“long submergences” in “the stream”
Lily response to Rosedale
“intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline”
Lily maid
“sometimes it struck her that her and her maid were in the same position, only that the latter recieved her wages more regularly”
Lily mother
mother has a “repugnance” at people who “lived like pigs”
mother dinginess
“her last adjuration to her daughter was to escape from the dinginess if she could” “Don’t let it creep up on you and drag you down.”
Jack Stepney’s marriage to Miss Van Osburgh
It was the “simple country wedding” to which guests are convoyed in special trains, and from which the hordes of the uninvited have to be fended off by the intervention of the police.
Rosedale jewish
Rosedale, with that mixture of artistic sensibility and business astuteness which characterizes his race,
social tasks
other social drudgery to perform.
Gormers’ carrie fisher
so they’ve started a sort of continuous performance of their own, a kind of social Coney Island,
money class mother
she was secretly ashamed of her mother’s crude passion for money. Lily’s preference would have been for an English nobleman
