quotes

Question 1

Grief and loss

Answer 1

I pass him the last remaining cut-crystal bowl. It belonged to my mother.

Question 2

Grief and loss

Answer 2

I can’t bear the sight of that boy. It’s a judgement on me.

Question 3

Grief and loss

Answer 3

She wouldn’t get out of bed, I couldn’t leave her.

Question 4

Gender roles

Answer 4

A husband and three littlies. The best days of my life. The reason women are put on this earth.

Question 5

Gender norms

Answer 5

“‘What’s the matter with you ?’ ‘He looks fit enough, doesn’t he?’”

Question 6

grief and loss

Answer 6

“I’ve never seen the likeness, despite what people say. I can’t see anything of my mother in me”

Question 7

Family

Answer 7

‘Stuck here,’ he says, ‘looking after your old man. You should have a family of your own by now.’

Question 8

Gender norms and class and status

Answer 8

‘Do you not understand how sensitive a reputation is? It’s up to me to be respectable.’

“I’m the eldest. It’s my responsibility

Question 9

societal expectation (class and status)

Answer 9

I’d have made it. I’d be one of the guys

Question 10

Grief and loss

Answer 10

‘People dissapear… Every time you see someone, you never know if you’re seeing them for the last time.’

Question 11

Gender norms

Answer 11

‘shame and the way it’s always the wome who wear it’

Question 12

societal expectation

Answer 12

‘There’s still hope for her, to have a husband and children the right way