"Tally's Blood" Quotes: Work Ethic/ Ambition

Question 1

A lazy Luigi allowing Lucia to do the household chores

Answer 1

Luigi: “When you’ve finished the clothes, you’ve to come up to the house. Ma wife’s going to teach you to clean a chicken.”

Question 2

A spoilt Lucia complains about her chores, showing her lack of work ethic

Answer 2

Lucia: “Oh Auntie Rosinella, I had to feed the pigs
Rosinella: Is that right hen?
Lucia: And fetch the water and pick the olives.”

Question 3

An ambitious Franco seeks independence when signing up for the army

Answer 3

Franco: “I don’t have to answer to anyone, not anymore”

Question 4

Hughie informing Rosinella of the hard work that he has been doing

Answer 4

Hughie: “That’s the tables cleared and the front shop mopped, Mrs Pedreschi, and the chip pan cleaned out.”

Question 5

Rosinella references Massimo and many other Italian-Scots that work for long hours

Answer 5

Rosinella: “Italians are good for this country. Who else is prepared to work till eleven o’clock every night?”

Question 6

An ambitious Franco is dissatisfied in working at his fathers shop and aspires to something exciting

Answer 6

Franco: “I cannie be expected to spend my whole life working from morning till night in a wee pokey shop.”

Question 7

Hughie working hard modestly in the background

Answer 7

“Hughie in: with pail and mop, working like a Trojan”