The Filling Station - Emily Bishop Flashcards
Repetition - dirty
“Oh, but it is dirty”
“Father wears a dirty oil-soaked monkey suit”
“A dirty dog”
“All quite thoroughly dirty”
Oxymoron
“Oil soaked, oil permeated to a distirbing over-all black translucency”
Parentises
“(Its a family filling station)”
Sibilance
“several quick and saucy and greasy sons assist him”
“Somebody arranges the rows of cans so that they softly say”
Homey aspects
“Why the extraneous plant?
Why the taboret?
Why, oh why, the doily?”
Feminine touch
“(Embroidered in daisy stitch with marguerites, I think, and heavy with gray crochet.)”
repetition - Somebody
“Somebody embroidered the doily.”
“Somebody waters the plant”
“Somebody arranges the rows of cans”
“Somebody loves us all.”
Humour
“Be careful with that match!”
“Somebody waters the plant, or oils it, maybe”
Soft s symbolises
Soft maternal nature
Themes
Appearance vs reality
Longing for a mother
epiphany
