Regeneration Key Quotes: Gender Roles

Question 1

‘You’ve got to toughen ‘em up, you know, in our neighbourhood. If you lie down there’s plenty to walk over you.’

Answer 1

Prior’s Father, Chapter 6, Pg 77

Question 2

‘they all had a slightly yellow tinge to their skin… Munitionettes’

Answer 2

Prior, Chapter 8, Pg 119

Question 3

‘he was so out of touch with women. They seemed to have changed so much during the war, to have expanded in all kinds of ways, whereas men over the same period had shrunk into a smaller and smaller space.’

Answer 3

Prior, Chapter 8, Pg 123