Howards End Flashcards
Chapter 5 Helen’s response to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Pg32 For the Andante had begun— very beautiful. But bearing a family likeness to a the other beautifu Andantes that Beethoven had written
Pg33 They were only the phantoms of cowardice and unbelief?…Men like the Wilcoxes…would say yes….They might retunr and they did
Chapter 1 Helen’s description of Howards End and Mrs Wilcox in her letter to Margaret
Pg1 a very big wych-elm…leaning a little over the house, and standing on the boundary between the garden and the meadow
Pg2 the house is covered with a vine….unproductive branch
Pg2 her hands full of the hay that was cut yesterday
Helen recounts Paul’s reactions:
Pg24 Somehow, when that kind of man looks frightened it is too awful
Pg25 I felt for a moment that the whole WIlcox family was a fraud, just a wall of newspapers and motor-cars and golf-clubs, and that if it fell I should find nothing behind it but panic and emptiness
Pg25 frightfully ashamed
Margaret responds to Helen’s recount of her stay at Howards End
Pg26 outer life, though obviously horrid, often seems the real one —there’s grit in it. It does breed character
Chapter 4 Helen discusses her passionate attraction to the Wilcox men—followed by her passionate recoil—with Margaret when she returns to Howards End
Pg22 New ideas had burst upon her like a thunderclap…she had fallen in love, not with an individual, but with a family
Pg22 abandonment of personality that is a possible prelude to love
Pg24 her life was to bring nothing more intense than the embrace of this boy
Chapter 5 Schlegels encounter Leonard Bast at Queen’s Hall
Pg41 It’s an appaling umbrella…fled, with the lilting step of the clerk
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it
Anxious to hand a lady down…His class was near enough her own for its manners to vex her
Leonard’s inner state when his umbrella is stolen:
Always something that distracted him in the pursuit of beauty
PG40 Behind Monet and Debussy the umbrella persisted, with the steady beat of a drum.
Chapter 6 Leonard Bast reading Rusin
Pg48 A sembasemtnt, and to other men as a cellar
Pg50 but of a heritage that may expand gradually he had no conception: he hoped to come to Culture suddenly
He was trying to form his style on Ruskin
Chapter 6 Introduction to Jackie
Pg52 made no further experiments in the difficult and tiring art of conversation
Pg53 She was now a massive woman…and her weight hurt him
Pg54 To all his moods Jackie remained equally indifferent
Chapter 8 Margaret calls on Mrs Wilcox
Pg75 to love people rather than pity them
let proportion come in as a last resource
Chapter 9 The failed luncheon with Mrs Wilcox
Pg76 did not blend…polite bewilderment
Pg76 It was the social counterpart of a motor-car, all jerks , and she was wisp of hay, a flower
Pg79 conscious of a personality that transcend their own and dwarfed theri activities
Pg79 Discussions keep a house alive. It cannot stand by bricks and mortar alone. It cannot stand without them
Chapter 11 WIcoxes decide to dismiss Mrs Wilcox’s request that Howards End be left to Margaret
Pg101 mistake of handling human affairs in bulk, but disposed of them item by item
Pg101 undue influence…invalid’s condition
Pg101 mistake of handling human affairs in bulk, but disposed of them item by item…It is the best…way of dodgining emotions
Chapter 14 Leonard’s Bast’s reappearance at Wickham Place
Pg120 colourless, toneless…morunful eyes above a drooping moustache
Pg120 grandson to the shepherd or ploughboy whom civilization had sucked into the town
Pg120 lost the life of the body and failed to reach the life of the spirit
Pg127 his was a gray life, and to brighten it he had ruled of a few corners for Romance
Chapter 16 Leonard Bast comes to tea at Wickham Place
Pg144 He would not let Romance interfere with his life
Pg 145 He understood his own corner of the machine, but nothing beyond it
To make the most of his romantic hour…precious minutes slipped away, and Jacky and squalor came nearer
Pg152 His brain is filled with the husks of books
Chapter 16 Henry Wilcox’s comments on Leonard
You must keep that type at a distance. Otherwise they forget themselves
Pg152 We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging fairly well elsewhere
Chapter 18 Henry Wilcox proposes to Margaret
Pg168 It is impossible to see modern life steadily and see it whole, and she had chosen to see it whole. Mr Wilcox saw steadily.
Pg172 He desired comradeship and affection, but he feared them…who had taught herself only to desire…held back, and hesitated with him
Chapter18 Margaret inspects the Ducie Street House
Pg170 the sumptuous dado, the gilded wallpaper, heavy chairs, immense sideboard
Pg170 keen to derive the modern capitalist from the warriors and hunters of the past
Pg170 the Bible…from the Boer War….fell into position. Such a room admitted loot
Chapter 19 Helen responds to Margaret’s offer of marriage from Henry Wilcox
Pg179 ‘Panic and emptiness,’ sobbed Helen. ‘Don’t’
Pg181 Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger
Pg181 love-making…Yours is romance; mine will be prose
Pg181 I don’t intend him…to be all my life
Chapter 20 Narrator likens love to rainbow
Pg194 Rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion
Pg194 Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts
Pg194 love…growing against the grey, sober against the fire
Chapter 20 Margaret perceives Henry’s inner fragmentation
Pg194 From boyhood he had neglected … the roads of Mr Wilcox’s soul
Pg194 Outwardly he was cheerful, reliable and brave, within all had reverted to chaos
Religion had confirmed bodily passion is bad
He could be a little ashamed of loving a wife
Chapter 22 Henry and Helen clash over the Porphyrion and helping Leonard Bast
Pg 203 The businessman who assumes that his life is everthing, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail…to hit the truth
Chapter 25 The wedding party run over a cat en route to Oniton
Pg222 never been in such a situation before. It was a woman in revolt who was hobbling away from him, the sight was too strange
Pg223 Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants — the whole system’s wrong and she must challenge it
Pg224 Neither knew that Margaret had artfully prepared the way for it. It fitted in too well with their view of feminine nature
Chapter 26: Evie’s wedding and the Wilcox family
Pg228 these athletes seemed paralyzed. They could not bathe with their appliances
Pg229 He treated a marriage like a funeral, item by item
Pg231 lower wheels of the machine that was tossing Evie up into nuptial glory
Chapter 26 Margaret’s response to Oniton House
Pg It would be no small business to remain herself, yet to assimilate such an establishment. She must remain herself
Og231 Her only allies were the powers of home, She was determined to create new sanctities
