Dunstan Flashcards
Dunstan
“a spiteful jeering fellow” - pejorative adjectives
“seemed to enjoy his drink the more when others went dry” - selfish, sadistic, likes seeing others suffer and takes advantage
- “a trap laid for him by Dunstan” - cunning
- “I’m always lucky in my weather” “whenever I fall, I fall on my legs” - arrogant
- “delight in lying”
-“whose nature it was to compare more for immediate annoyances than remote consequences”
- “rather enjoying the idea that the weaver would be frightened by the sudden noise” - sadistic
- manipulative, takes fowler’s rent from G to not tell Squire of marriage, sells wildfire, blackmail
- “he stepped forward into the darkness” - dark imagery - his goal is the darkness
- “the rain and darkness had got thicker” - pathetic fallacy - malicious intent
Yet not necessarily his fault - due to his upbringing
