quotes Flashcards
(29 cards)
addiction
“it’s so hard to explain. I mean deep down, underneath I know it’s an excuse. But it makes it easier”
life and past
“None of us can help the things life has done to us”
illusion vs reality
“I don’t know what your talking about… I’ve just been having a little rheumatism. That’s all.”
family and love
“It was a bad joke, all the talk about love in a family”
Mary
“I was so happy for a time”
Tyrone
“What the hell was it I wanted to buy? I wonder”
Edmund
“The fog is where I belong”
blame
“It was you being born that started her on the dope… God how I hate you for it.”
denial
“I’ve always been a good husband”
stage directions
“detached” and “dreamy”
alcoholism
“Be always drunken… If you would not feel the horrible burden of time”
blame (2)
“cheap quack”
Jamie and Edmund view of Tyrone
“stingiest old miser”
Tyrone view of money (AD)
“you’ve never known the value of the dollar a day in your life, and you never will!”
the past
“The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.”
fog symbolism
“The hardest thing to take is the blank wall she builds around her. Or it’s more like a bank of fog in which she hides and loses herself”
denial (2)
“I don’t blame her. Who could blame her?”
family and communication
never felt it was a “real home”
religion and irish catholisism
“Don’t start your dammed atheist morbidness again!”
mary preoccupation
“is it my hair?”
mary love for James
“I love you dear, in spite of everything”
cathleen re love between tyrone and mary
“any fool can see he worships the ground you walk on”
atheism
Edmund- “Did you pray for Mama?/ Yes I did. Every morning and every night./ Well Nietsche must be right God is dead”
final scene
“the mad scene, enter Ophelia”
