English - Comparative (The Dressmaker) Flashcards
(52 cards)
Power - Gertrude
“everyone must do what I say”
Power - Pettyman
“Dungatar’s richest man”
Power - Pettyman
“She was limped but he positioned her as he wanted her.”
Power - Pettyman
“tormented me and kept me as your mistress”
Pain - Tilly
“thin, tired country-ruddy face with red rimming eyes”
Pain - Irma Almanac
“framed by roses … used to have a lot of falls”
Pain - Tilly
“everyone I’ve touched is hurt, or dead”
Pain - Tilly
“Bitterness rested on Tilly’s soul and wore itself on her face.”
Femininity - Gertrude
“good mule”
“fine silk taffeta gown”
Femininity - Tilly
“draping them in luxurious materials … so they knew how it felt to be caressed and affluent” juxtaposed against “sharp demands”
Isolation - Molly
“skeleton wearing a tea cozy”
Isolation - Molly
“crowds of invisible people around her bed”
Isolation - The Hill
“cast a shadow over the town”
Isolation - Molly
“I went mad with loneliness for you”
Isolation - Molly
“This is what they’ve done to you.”
Heroism - Tilly
“She was wreathed in a brilliant halo”
Guilt - Tilly
“wet blood on the dry grass outside”
Guilt - Tilly
“Tilly knew she must stay in Dungatar for a kind of penance.”
Guilt - Tilly
“A feverish nausea swamped her, guilt, and she said to herself, it wasn’t my fault.”
Guilt - Tilly
“it’s guilt, and the evil inside me - I carry it around with me, in me, all the time.”
Guilt - Tilly
“still Myrtle”
Insular community - Prudence Dimm
“had taught the children of Dungatar for as long as anyone could remember”
Insular community - Mae
“Nothing ever really changes Myrtle”
Insular community - Tilly
“She’s got a nerve I tell you, turned up wearing a very bold frock- obscene”
