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Maturity Stories Flashcards

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A Little Cloud - idolisation of London

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“great city of London”

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A Little Cloud - description of Little Chandler

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“His hands were white and small, his frame was fragile, his voice was quiet and his manners were fragile”

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A Little Cloud - hyperbolic prose of L.C

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“He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages bequeathed to him”

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A Little Cloud - walking through the crowd of children

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“He picked his way deftly through all that minute vermin-like life”

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A Little Cloud - Joyce mocking LC’s faux bravery

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“Sometimes, however, he courtd the casues of his fear. He chose the darkest and narrowest streets” “a sound of low-fugitive laughter made him tremble like a leaf”

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A Little Cloud - sterility of Dublin

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“you could do nothing in Dublin”

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A Little Cloud - Irish Revival value to England

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“English critics, perhaps, would recognise him as one of the Celtic schooL”

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A Little Cloud - description of Gallaher

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“His eyes, which were of bluish slate-colour, relieved his unhealthy pallor and shone out plainly above the vivid orange tie he wore”

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A Little Cloud - contrast of the timid LC and brave G

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“He sipped a little of his drink while Ignatius Gallaher finished his boldly”

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A Little Cloud - LC’s disillusionment with G

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“There was something vulgar in his friend”

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A Little Cloud - prurient LC and G’s response

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“is it true that Paris is so … immoral as they say?” “Every place is immoral”

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A Little Cloud - LC shy

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“Little Chandler blushed and smiled”

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A Little Cloud - LC thinking himself intellectually superior

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“Gallaher was his inferior in birth and education”

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A Little Cloud - G getting defensive

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“See if I don’t play my cards properly. When I go about something I mean business”

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A Little Cloud - Orientalist fantasies

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“thousands of rich Germans and Jews” “Dark Oriental eyes”

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A Little Cloud - resentment of his wife

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“They repelled him and defied him: there was no passion in them, no rapture”

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A Little Cloud - child = obstacle

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“If he could get back into that mood … the child awoke and began to cry”

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A Little Cloud - life of entrapment

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“it was useless, useless! He was a prisoner for life”

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A Little Cloud - antipathy between the sexes

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“his heart closed together as he met the hatred in them”

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A Little Cloud - removes himself from his family

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“cheeks suffused with shame and he stoo back out of the lamplight”

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A Little Cloud - connection between father and son

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“the child’s sobbing grew less and less; and tearsof remorse started to his eyes”

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Counterparts - introducing violent atmosphere

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“The bell rung furiously” “The man muttered Blast hi!”

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Counterparts - description of Farrington

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“He had a hanging face, dark wine coloured, with fair eyebrows and moustache: his eyes bulged forward slightly and the whites of them were dirty”

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Counterparts - egg metaphor

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“like a large egg reposing upon the papers”

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Counterparts - preoccupied with violent fantasies

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“The man stared fixedly at the polished skull … gauging its fragility”

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Counterparts - repeated image of Farrington’s face

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“his inflamed face, the colour of dark wine or dark meat”

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Counterparts - echoes in the description of the rich women

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“nodding the great black feather in her hat” “peacock blue muslin”

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Counterparts - circle of abuse

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“My Alleyne began a tirade of abuse”

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Counterparts - mechanised simile

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“Like the knob of some electric machine”

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Counterparts - animalistic nature of F

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“He felt savage and thirsty and revengeful”

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Counterparts - longing for dominance

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“staring masterfully at the office girls”

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Counterparts - fantasy of the woman in the bar

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“Farrington gazed admiringly at the plump arm … admired till more her large dark brown eyes”

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Counterparts - woman’s expression

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“The oblique starng expression fascinated him”

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Counterparts - woman brushing past him

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“O pardon! In a London accent … he was disappointed”

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Counterparts - after losing the arm wrestle

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“Farrington’s dark wine coloured face flushed darker still with anger and humiliation at having been defeated by such a stripling”

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Counterparts - memory of the women causing humiliation

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“when he thought of the woman in the big hat who had brushed against him and said Pardon! his fury nearly choked him”

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Counterparts - relationship with wife

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“His wife was little sharp-faced woman who bullied her husband when he was sober and was bullied by him when he was drunk”

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Counterparts - abusing his son

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“The little boy looked about him wildly butm seeing no way of escape, fell upon his knees … The boy uttered a squeal of pain”

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Clay - opening, fairytale language

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“Kitchen was spick and span” “fire was nice and bright”

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Clay - description of Maria

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“Maria was a very very small person indeed but she had a very long nose and a very long chin”

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Clay - praise from others of Maria

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“Maria you are a veritable peace maker” “Everyone was so fond of Maria”

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Clay - laundry

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“Dublin by Lamplight”

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Clay - 1st denial of marriage

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“Maria had to laaugh and say she didn’t want any ring or man either”

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Clay - gestures betraying her discomfort

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“disappoited shyness” “the tip of nose nearly met the tip of her chin”

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Clay - level of superiority

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“the notions of a common woman”

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Clay - emphasising her feminity that others ignore

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“quaint affection at the diminutive body” “she found it a a nice tidy little body”

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Clay - 2nd denial of marriage

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“how much better it was to be independent and to have your own money in your pocket”

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Clay - sarcasm of cake lady

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“asked her was it a wedding cake she wanted to buy”

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Clay - man Maria meets on train

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“He was a stout gentlemen” “he had a square red face” “colonel looking gentlemen”

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Clay - appreciative of attention

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“favoured him with demure nods and hems”

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Clay - metonymy, narrative betraying her

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“how easy it was to know a gentlemen even when he has a drop taken”

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Clay - ambiguous dialogue

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“O, here’s Maria”

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Clay - ashamed of her sexuality

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“Maria, remembering how confused the gentlemen with the greyish moustache had made her, coloured with shame and vexation and disappointed”

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Clay - clay in the game

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“She felt a soft wet substance with her fingers and was surprised that nobody spoke”

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Clay - 3rd denial of marriage

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“I Dream that I Dwelt” “when it came to the second verse she sang again”

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Clay -Joe reaction to the song

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“his eyes filled up so much with tears”

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A Painful Case - self imposed isolation

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“he wished to live as far from the city as possible”

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A Painful Case - Mr. Duffy’s clinical personality

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“Mr Duffy abhorred anything which betokened physical or mental disorder”

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A Painful Case - separation with his body

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“He lived a little distance from his body”

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A Painful Case - arrogance to the distachment

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“He had an odd autobiographical habit”

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A Painful Case - opposite to boys in childhood stories

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“an adventureless tale”

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A Painful Case - desire for connection but focus on his own experience

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“tried to permanently fix her in his memory” “he entangled his thought with hers”

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A Painful Case - she gratifies his ego

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“She listened to all” “She became his confessor”

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A Painful Case - D criticising the socialists

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“the interest they took in the question of wages”

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A Painful Case - intimate isolation

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“The dark discreet room, their isolation”

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A Painful Case - human connection gives him joy

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“This union exalted him, wore away the rough edged of his character”

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A Painful Case - aphorism

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“We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own”

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A Painful Case - Mrs Sinico pyhsical gesture

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“Mrs Sinico caught up his hand passionately and pressed it to her cheek”

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A Painful Case - clinical description of their relationship

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“their last interview” “ruined confessional”

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A Painful Case - first reaction of disgust to her death

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“it revolted him to think that he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred” “vulgar death attacked hi stomach”

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A Painful Case - realisation of the enormity of her death

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“he realised that she was dead that she ceased to exist that she had become a memory”

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A Painful Case - starts to feel physical connection to her

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“he seemed to feel her voice touch his ear, her hand touch his. He stood to listen”

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A Painful Case - complete disintergration of his character

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“He felt his moral nature falling to pieces”

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A Painful Case - warmth of Dublin

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“the lights of which bured redly and hospitably”

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A Painful Case - realising the unfulfilling nature of his life

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“he gnawed the rectitude of his life” “he felt that he had been an outcast of life’s feast”

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A Painful Case - train

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“like a worm with a fiery head winding through the darkness, obstinately and labouriously”

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A Painful Case - returing home but reconnected with his body

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“He turned back the way he came “ “He felt that he was alone”

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