TBL quotes Flashcards
Power - Identity (Toby)
“Power can be enjoyed only when it is recognised and feared”
Looks -Identity (Toby)
Toby, Silver and Taylor would “practice looking cool”
Distinction - Identity (Toby)
“I wanted distinction, and the respectable forms of it seemed to be eluding me”
Not what he seems - Identity (Toby)
“I was not the person I tried so hard to seem”
Integrity - Identity (Toby)
Toby wants to be a “boy of integrity”
Boy in the letters - Identity (Toby)
“On the boy who lived in their letters…it seemed to me I saw my own face”
Fit in -Identity (Arthur)
“To fit in with them he had to hold his tongue”
Indifference - Identity (Arthur)
“Apparent indifference to what other people thought of him”
Roy’s treatment of Rosemary - Power & Powerlessness
“The threats and occasional brutality with which he held her in her place”
Dwight’s car rides - Power and Powerlessness
“Please, Dwight”
Dwight’s abuse - Power and Powerlessness (Toby)
Dwight’s abuse “disfigured me”
Conventional - Family/ Belonging (Toby)
“I was fiercely conventional. I was tempted by the idea of belonging to a conventional family”
Boxing match, proud - Masculinity (Toby)
“I could feel his exultation at the blow I’d struck, feel his pride in it”
