The years- Enviroment

Question 1

‘Room of ones own’

Answer 1

Eleanor has to have a room of her own in order to be able to write- needs to escape from life to a confined environment in order to think.

Links to Crosby’s own room, his form of escape from life as a servant

Question 2

Piccadilly Circus

Answer 2

CP sees that everyone has somewhere to go or a purpose.

Everyone exists in London for a reason- comment on industrial revolution

Question 3

Family home

Answer 3

‘Different people had lived together boxed up together telling lies’
Critiques notion of family environment
Families are full of lies and deceit- Partiger means to throw all over OR cover up

Question 4

Myras dwelling place

Answer 4

Dark and dingey hole where CP meets Myra.
Dark because of the disgusting nature of what is unfolding, however, not looked down upon by male centred society.
Comment on the emergence of equality.

Question 5

Sunflower motif on housing projects

Answer 5

Extended use throughout the novel to show plastering over cracks of family life- All environments have meaning.

Question 6

East

Answer 6

Where money is made, business takes place, public and orient

Question 7

West

Answer 7

Money is spent, location of home, private, occident

Question 8

‘But it’s not landscape any longer, she thought, it’s peoples lives, their changing lives’

Answer 8

No longer about what’s around them but their individual journeys. Setting doesn’t matter.