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The Pupil By Henry James

The Pupil By Henry James. Kyle Gunby , Conlan James, Stefanie Shahan “There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.” –Oscar Wilde. Inferiority Complex.

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The Pupil By Henry James

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  1. The PupilBy Henry James Kyle Gunby, Conlan James, Stefanie Shahan “There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.” –Oscar Wilde

  2. Inferiority Complex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJOuOkEWE5w

  3. What or Theme Statement • Through drastic contrast, irony and perspective, Henry James is able to characterize the actions of those with wealth and without, providing insight into the inferiority complex suffered by those lacking material means and the schisms present in families of wealth. • Poor People want money that rich people have. Rich people don’t have good family lives because of money.

  4. How devices • Contrast • Irony • Perspective • Syntax/Diction • Metaphor • Emphasis • Imagery • Tone

  5. James shows the different mindsets of poor and rich through perspective • Third Person Limited-Through Pemberton • “The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy.” –Line 1 • Establishes importance of money to Pemberton. • “’Oh, I can assure you that all that will be quite regular.’”-Line 70 • Establishes sense of financial superiority by family.

  6. James uses contrast to indicate the separate ideas of money • Contrasting views on money • All throughout passage, Pemberton wants to bring up money, but family doesn’t care to speak about it. • Ex: “…approach the delicate subject of his remuneration.”-Line 28 • Ex: “…broach the subject of terms…”-Line 2 • Ex: “…what ‘all that’ was to amount to—people had such different ideas.”-line 72 • Contrast can flow into imagery and metaphor

  7. James uses emphasis,imageryand metaphors to characterize the dominance of Mrs. Moreen • A description of the woman: “The large, affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de suede through a fat, jewelled hand and, at once pressing and gliding…”-Line 7 • Emphasis on Mrs. Moreen– no descriptions of Pemberton or his reactions • Simple imagery in quote • Metaphor is only actual description of Pemberton in passage

  8. James uses Syntax and Diction to show both the personalities and how they affect the interactions • Pemberton never speaks. • “…in squeezing out a phrase about the rate of payment…”-Line 65 • Mrs. Moreen- “large affable lady” “Fat Jewelled Hand” “Councious Smile” “Expensive Identity” • Morgan Moreen- “Cynical Confession” “Casual Observation” “Sickly Without Being Delicate” “Mocking” “Foreign Ejaculation” • Pemberton- “Hesitated and Procrastinated” “Modest– Even Timid” “Prove Cleverer Than Himself” “Nervousness” “Something Really Superior In The Way Of A Resident Tutor”

  9. James uses irony to show how the poor are not really present in the midst of the rich • Pemberton, protagonist, has no presence • Pemberton intellectually bullied by “sickly kid” • “Chance that his small scholar might prove cleverer than himself had quite figured, to his nervousness…”- line 54 • Kid-mom relationship • Imagery through no description

  10. James uses tone • Mocking tone •                 Especially with Mrs. Moreen, who is portrayed as dramatic and cruel.  She brushes off Pemberton’s timid question, and the author is sarcastic in tone:  “Conscious smile which seemed a reference to the lady’s expensive identity…She became still more gracious to reply” (Line 68).  •                 “She repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear” (Like 11) •                 “Say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven shouldn’t catch” (Line 30) •                 Pemberton’s extreme timidity is almost laughable. •                 Morgan is described as “unpleasant” and “mocking” as well as “cynical”. •                 All characters are not necessarily likeable. • The hesitant Pemberton grows a backbone: "reflected, somewhat grimly, that the first thing he should have to teach his little charge" (Line 20).  However, he does nothing about this idea within the excerpt.

  11. Real Life Connection • 99% movement (Occupy Wallstreet) • Class struggle, oppression by the too 1% • Opposite of passage- people are not being timid/hesitant anymore

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