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Summary Characters in the dream house
- Course
- IEB NOTES MATRIC
- Institution
- Brescia House High School
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LOOKSMART CHAPTER 1 PG 46-50Synopsis:
Looksmart goes to the farm to see Patricia. Realizes how much Patricia
has changed (aged) Patricia doesn’t recognize him at first.
Themes:
- Ageing
‘older and greyer’ (idea of time and changes / ageing)
‘that would be enough: to have seen her and seen what she has
become’
- Memory
‘the old woman is still there, still calling the girl like she’s calling one of
her dogs’
‘he feels the years stretching inside him, between the young man he was
and the man he is now, and he sees the years stretching all around him.’
‘thousands of days lived without him.’
- Shadows of the past
‘the old woman is still there, still calling the girl like she’s calling one of
her dogs’
‘a thing that seems impossible to look at but has to be looked at twice.’ –
his first reaction to seeing Patricia
‘he says this in a voice he barley recognizes’ – reluctance
‘standing before her like a stranger’
‘all he is to her at that moment is a darker place in the darkness, dense
with possibility.’ – nostalgic
‘her world was always put on hold whenever he came into this room’
, ‘all he is to her at that moment is a darker place in the darkness, dense
with possibility.’ – nostalgic
- Identity and belonging
‘he says this in a voice he barley recognizes’ – reluctance
‘standing before her like a stranger’
‘Do I – know you?’
Characterization:
Judgmental/ bitter- judges Wiley’s for not having better security/
how easy it was for him to enter house “or at least to give the
appearance that they had something worth defending.” – also
judges the appearance of Patricia when he sees her: “she looks
larger, swollen outside of the space he assigned for her.”
Cunning: stands in darkness of house “Looksmart does nothing
about it.”
Self-conscious: feels as if he is being watched in the house
(feelings from childhood)
Angry/ resentful: he resents “the old man” – “he finds himself
cheered by the prospect of the old man’s death.”
Hesitant/ confused about his anger: he battles to enter the room
when greeting Patricia
Guilty: looksmart feels guilty for his absence over the years: “he
experiences the stirrings of a sensation like guilt.”
Arrogant
Elitist
- Although he stayed on the farm for so long, he almost feels like a
stranger going back
- Richard was jealous of Looksmarts relationship with Patricia
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