part 4 summary

Question 1

part 4 summary? london 1999

Answer 1

(briony)
- Briony takes a cab to the Imperial War Museum to put her research for Atonement in order.
- She has just gotten the diagnosis of vascular dementia from her doctor.
- She thinks of Lord and Lady Marshall and the various foundations doing good in the world they fund.
- Lola is still agile, and Briony fears she will outlive her, making it impossible for Briony to publish her novel in her lifetime (because she fears Lola would accuse her of libel).
- Briony prepares for her 77th birthday party, thrown for her at the old house, now a hotel.
- She is given Aunt Venus’s old room, the one Paul Marshall occupied long ago.
- Her family celebrates her birthday by performing her old play, The Trials of Arabella.
- Briony admits she fabricated the part about her meeting Cecilia and Robbie still alive.
- She wanted the lovers to have a better end.
- She notes, “if she had the power to conjure them at [her] birthday celebration,” she would.
- And then she goes to sleep.