The Quincy Twins Flashcards
1
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Neglected
A
‘Their room was a pitiful mess of clothes… No one in the Tallis household was looking after the Quincey twins.’ (ch9p100)
2
Q
Victims
A
Chapter 8:
“And those Quincy children. The boy wetting his bed and all. The poor little lambs.’ - grace Turner (89)
Chapter 9:
“Miss Betty says we’ll get a smack if we don’t go down now…” (99)
“She hates us.” (about Lola) (99)
When Cecilia begins cleaning their room, McEwan uses a semantic field of punishment to show how the twins perceive her help & portrays them as victims: ‘retribution’, ‘scolding’, ‘ashamed’, ‘hopeless’, ‘terrifying’.
