Mother and Son

Question 1

Mother

Answer 1

"fat good you'd be at a job"
"she pecked cruelly at his defences"
"but she always cornered him"
"it was in your family but not ours"
"her little bitter barbs"

Question 2

Setting

Answer 2

“it had been a cold dismal afternoon”
“the clock struck five wheezingly”
“daylight was hooded by thick yellow curtains”

Question 3

Son

Answer 3

“he felt as if he were on a boat on a limitless ocean just as his house was on a limitless moorland”
“out of the silence he heard a bus roaring past his window”
“How he hated her!”
“his sense of loneliness closed round him”
“he walked to the door, opened it and stood listening to the rain”

Question 4

Themes

Answer 4

• rural life
• isolation
• relationships
• duty