Short Stories: Tears, Idle Tears Flashcards
What kind of person is Mrs. Dickinson?
She’s cold and collected, comes across as unfeeling and power hungry, likes her life just so and believes in tough love(if she believes in love at all)
What is the tone?
Curious and embarrassed for the most part
What is the theme?
The theme is we need to stop judging people because we don’t know why they do what they do or say what they say an we may just be making their problems worse
Who is George?
Another handicap person who the ‘nice girl in the park’ used to work with
Who is Toppy?
The father of Frederick and husband of Mrs Dickinson who died two days after his RAF plane crashed (he was a pilot)
Why didn’t Mrs Dickinson remarry?
She liked being seen as capable of taking care of herself, she felt powerful because of it and she liked all the male attention, also power/strength oriented
What is a term used that suggests Frederick is handicapped?
‘Crying made him so abject…’
‘There is something about an ABJECT person…’
‘So OUTCAST from other people…’
What is the significance of the duck?
He remembered it years later because it calmed him down (check this with Murray … ‘Other reasons?’)
Why didn’t she cry when her husband died?Does she love her son?
She’s very outwardly unfeeling everyone grieves differently and she strives for composer it is unclear if deep down she is loving but she doesn’t seem like it and doesn’t think like it so evidence suggests not.
Why does Frederick cry all the time? (Without knowing why he’s crying)
Evidence would suggest that he has a handicap
