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27 Cards in this Set
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Melanie's obsession with marriage and sex
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"Grow fat and nobody would ever love her and she would die virgin."
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Melanie's childish behaviour
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"Sometimes doing cartwheels and handstands out of sheer exhilaration."
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Melanie's change after parents' deaths
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"She was the last, the only woman."
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Melanie's attraction to Finn
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"His Atlantic-coloured regard went over Melanie like a wave."
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Melanie's repulsion by Finn
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"poverty-stricken slum smell"
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First impressions of the house
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"The light was as murky as that in the window."
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Redness symbolism for isolation
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"She was a red woman, redder, even, than Finn and Francie."
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Aunt Margaret's silence
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"She would have been a talkative woman if she could."
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Melanie's isolation
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"She could not bear to be such a stranger, so alien."
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Uncle Philip's attitude to women
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"He likes, you know, silent women."
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Uncle Philip's presence at the table
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"Presiding magisterially over the platter" or "His authority was stifling."
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Desolation in South London
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"Crumbling in decay, overladen with a desolate burden of humanity."
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The Pleasure Garden
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"The park lay in sodden neglect, sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out."
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Isolation of the house
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The isolation of the Flower household on top of the South Suburban hill was complete."
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Spyhole
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"A hole in the wall, through which light shone from the next room."
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Aunt Margaret's necklace
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"It was heavy, crippling"
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Symbolism of Uncle Philip's control
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"He's pulled our strings as if we were his puppets."
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Philip's power over Melanie during the play
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"The swan towered over the black-haired girl."
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Celebratory atmosphere as Uncle Philip is gone
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"The very bacon bounced and crackled in the pan for joy because Philip was not."
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Melanie's embrace of her new life
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"It would be best to cut out her memory and her dreams."
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Melanie's fate with Finn at the end
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"Melanie thought: 'Now that we have shared all this, we can never be like other people. We can only be like ourselves and one another. We only have each other, now.' "
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Finn changes after the play
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"After this, Finn stopped grinning." or "Worst of all, his grace was gone."
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Finn in Melanie's bed
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"They were in bed as two married people who had laid in bed easily together all their lives."
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Isolation of the Flowers
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"The Flowers were quite private. Nobody ever visited them."
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Melanie losing her mind
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"In the dresser drawer was a freshly severed hand, all bloody at the roots."
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Finn chops up the swan
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"I was lying in my bed and suddenly I thought I'd do it. I don't know why. It came to me. I'll kill his swan for him."
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Melanie yearning for childhood
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"Some of her childhood seemed trapped in the pages."
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