The Old Man

Question 0

Character- wife

Answer 0

‘A placid, mild-tempered creature’
‘She treated the four alike… Her thoughts were always for the old man rather than for them.’
‘The mother was useless, she would not prevent it.’

Question 1

Character - old man

Answer 1

‘He didn’t care for strangers.’
‘Such power and drive’
‘That magnificent head now angry, evil’

Question 2

Old Man and wife relationship

Answer 2

‘The two of them were devoted to one another.’

‘They were free to be together again, and there was no longer a third to divide them.’

Question 3

Character- Boy

Answer 3

‘Clumsy sort of fellow.’
‘Poor, simple Boy’
‘Boy was no fighter. He didn’t know how.’

Question 4

Boy and old man relationship

Answer 4

‘The old man was ashamed of him.’
‘It rattled the old man… Irritated him, too’
‘He was thrust out in the cold, and the missus and Boy stayed together.’

Question 5

Nature vs. Nurtue

Answer 5

‘Not what you’d do for your own son and daughters’ (when children were sent away)

Question 6

Boy and mother relationship

Answer 6

‘It was up to her to tell Boy that he was in the way’