Themes - Identity Flashcards
In the final chapter when we learn “Actually there were Two German spies in the Close.. “ (Ch11 p230) . Stephen had once tried to gain a little credit with Keith by claiming that his father was a German spy - well he was German but was on the British side.
This shows how he didn’t realise what was going on in his own life.
Stephen realised that they “ were the Germans, in a country at war with them, and no one knew it.” (Ch 11 p231)
Only on reflection does he realise that some of the things his father said that were “irritating and eccentric” were simply plain ordinary German.
They were also Jews, “the Juice, in a juiceless district.” (Ch11 p231)
Ironically they had accused the dark strangers at Trewinnick of being jews but they were Greek.
He wasn’t religious but had a conviction that “Friday evening, when the first star is ventured upon the sky, was a time for all of us to stay home and be together.” (Ch11 p231)
Suggesting that he deep down knew the importance of the Sabbath.
“He was beginning to understand that he was a German that was entirely English.”
Stephen often seems to believe two opposing things at once.
