Jack Tallis Flashcards
1
Q
Absent
A
Chapter 9:
‘There would be a phone call from the department to say that Mr. Tallis had to work late and would stay up in town’ (102)
‘Two years ago her father had disappeared into the preparation of mysterious consultation documents for the home Office.’
Psychoanalytic: physical and emotional disappearance indicating Jack’s absence from his children’s lives.
2
Q
Affair
A
‘That he worked late she did not doubt, but she knew he did not sleep at his club, and he knew that she knew this’ (ch12p148)
‘wronged child, wronged wife.’ (ch12p148)
