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came back to prove to everyone how far he’s come
“forget to make sure that they got to know how well he had done”
remembers his Scottish ways and it feels wrong to him now. he has fully moved on
“nyaff” “Scottish words rose unbidden to his mouth like bile”
gets threatened
“Get out of here, daddy, before we cut you up, and take your camera and your bus with you.”
“tourist”
so proud of leaving Glasgow
“He looked up at the tenement with the cheerful animation of one who had left it”
wife not happy to be back
“smiled disdainfully”
“she took no pleasure”
“should be back in Africa where we belong.”
mrs Jackson reminds him how important she is and how he wouldn’t be this successful without her
“remember it was me who drove you to the top”
mrs Jackson and mr Jackson finally make contact. happy that she is happy now. sex?
“his own wife put her hand in his as they got of the car… it looked as if it might be a good evening after all”
mr Jackson racist
“I was treated like a black. that’s what it amounted to. by god, like a black”
how she acts in the neighbourhood vs how she acts in the hotel with coat
“she kept her fur coat as far away from them [discoloured doors] as she could”
“she smiled, trailing her fur coat.”
setting
“walls were brown and a dirty blue below, pitted with scars.”
“silence of exhaustion settled over the flats at about one in the morning”
“rain coming through the roof”
he changes attitude
“I wish to god we were home”
