quotes on dissatisfaction Flashcards
quote on dissatisfaction(same)
‘a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain.’ (chapter 10)
archer dissatisfied with the repetition of his life
quote on dissatisfaction (cinders)
‘The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.’ (chapter 15)
The “usual” is felt to be a kind of horrible death, killing off everything that’s lively and passionate and spontaneous.
quote on dissatisfaction (he disliked in her)
‘Archer disliked her use of the word “clever” almost as much as her use of the word “common”; but he was beginning to fear his tendency to dwell on the things he disliked in her.’ (chapter 20)
May is the voice of society in their marriage, reminding him what society thinks is acceptable and what society thinks is “vulgar.” She’s like a mental policewoman.
quote on dissatisfaction (his whole future)
‘His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.’ (chapter 22)
Add this quote to the list of quotes where Archer views his future with hopelessness and despair. he Is having a exterstential crisis
quote on dissatisfaction (catch my death)
“Catch my death!” he echoed; and he felt like adding: “But I’ve caught it already. I am dead —I’ve been dead for months and months.” (chapter 30)
It’s ironic that May worries about Newland catching his death of cold when she is partly, or even primarily, responsible for his figurative “death,” in the sense that she has prevented Newland from pursuing his love for Madame Olenska. symbolic of opening the widow, he is stifled by his marriage
quote on dissatisfaction good in the old ways
‘Looking about him, he honored his own past, and mourned for it. After all, there was good in the old ways.’(chapter 34)
Archer thirty years later hasn’t turned out as bitter as the previous pages might have led you to believe. Despite all his moaning about how the future is just a slow death, he seems to have found some happiness anyway- there is more to life. following duty does not lead to irrevocable unhappiness
