The Darling p.1016

1. The Darling p.1016 Olga first marries a theater owner. When married to him, she thinks and speaks only of the theater. After he dies suddenly, she soon marries a timber merchant. During this marriage she thinks, speaks, and even dreams only of timber. After he, too, dies, Olga takes up with a veterinary surgeon, who is estranged from his wife and son, and she speaks only of veterinary concerns. When he, too, leaves her, Olga’s life becomes empty, as do her thoughts. Without a man around to form her identity, Olga grows old and loses the charm that had earned her the nickname ‘‘darling,’’ until the veterinary surgeon reenters her life, only to abandon his young son, Sasha, to her care. Olga’s life once again takes on meaning, as she absorbs herself with the care of Sasha, who ultimately feels smothered by her demonstrations of maternal love.

2. Chekhov meant to ridicule Olga’s character, as representative of a woman whose life has no meaning outside of her relationship to men; to celebrate her character as an ideal of selfless maternal love • Olga: the daughter of a retired collegiate assessor. Very beautiful, but is also emotional, gentle, soft-hearted, compassionate, mild and tender eyes. Easily sways with the opinions around her and follows those that are closes to her. Is referred to as "darling" for her sweet personality and willingness to give. • Plemyanniakov: Olga’s Father - A retired collegiate assessor – has fallen ill and dies in the beginning of the story. Olga's first male figure. • Kukin: neighbor of Olga – manages the open air theater. Becomes Olga’s first husband and dies when he works in Moscow. Described as a small thin man, yellow face, with curls, talks in a thin tenor voice with an expression of despair, but had a deep genuine affection in Olga • VassilyAndreitchPustovalov: Olga's neighbor is a merchant from a timber yard. He comforts her after the death of Kukin and falls in love with Olga. Falls ill from a cold and later dies a few months later. Olga's third male figure. • Smirnin: a veterinary surgeon – has separated from his wife who has his son, left her because of unfaithfulness. Easily embarrassed by Olga. Olga's fourth male figure • Sasha: Smirnin’s son from his previous marriage attends school and is very intelligent. Parents abandoned him for work and social lives so was raised by Olga. This is the last male figure that Olga cares for, but smothers him with maternal love as compared to her previous husbands/male figures.

3. ANTHONY TROLLOPE-Malachi's Cove(p.970) Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was a remarkable man. After an unhappy childhood, and an unpromising start to his career, he went on to write 47 novels and rise to the top of his profession as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. Trollope wrote for three hours every morning from 5am - 8am, and then went to work. He paid a servant £5 extra a year to wake him up with a cup of coffee. Trollope introduced the pillar box to Britain. The first one was in St Helier, Jersey, and was hexagonal and green.

4. MahalaTringlos gathered seaweed in a cove on the coast of Cornwall, and supported her aged and crippled grandfather by selling it as fertilizer. She lived a desolate life of the hardest physical labor, hewing a poor path down the cliff side, and harnessing herself like an animal to drag back the heavy weed. The son of a neighboring farmer trenched on her preserves, and with his greater strength and the aid of a pony was able to scoff at the amount of her daily harvest. Mahala was wildly angry and declared that she hoped he would drown. Working one day near her, he fell into a whirlpool from which she rescued him at the risk of her own life. His peril aroused in her the first tenderness she had ever known and, her anger having disappeared, she found that she loved him.

5. Cup of Tea p. 1128 • Rosemary Fell, a young, wealthy woman, goes shopping at a florist's and in an antique shop. Before going to the car, Rosemary is approached by Miss Smith, a poor girl who asks for enough money to buy tea. Instead, Rosemary drives the girl to her plush house. At the Fells' home, Miss Smith eats her fill. • She then begins to tell Rosemary of her life when the husband, Philip, comes in. Although initially surprised, Philip recovers and asks to speak to Rosemary alone. In the library, Philip conveys his disapproval. When Rosemary resists dismissing Miss Smith, Philip tries another, more successful, tactic. He plays to Rosemary's jealousy by telling her how pretty Miss Smith is. Rosemary retrieves three, 5 pound notes, and, presumably, sends the girl away. This different from Rosemary's first vow to "Be frightfully nice to her" and to "Look after her." Later, Rosemary goes to her husband and informs him "Miss Smith won't dine with us tonight." She first asks about the antique box from the morning, but then arrives at her true concern: She quietly asks him, " Am I pretty? She's very insecure

6. Rosemary Fell, a rich woman • the antiquarian on Curzon Street • Miss Smith, the poor girl picked up and fed by Rosemary • Jeanne, a housemaid • Philip, Rosemary's husband

7. Virginia Woolf-p.1138 Perhaps the pre-eminent modernist writer. Troubled life Mood swings Depression Writings considered an anti-Semitic but hubby was Jewish…singular?

8. DUCHESS AND JEWELLER • ANTI-SEMITIC • Oliver Bacon (ironic) is this story's protagonist. Once a poor boy in the streets of London, he has become the richest jeweller in England. As a young man, he sold stolen dogs to wealthy women and marketed cheap watches at a higher price. On a wall in his private room hangs a picture of his late mother. He frequently talks to her and reminisces, once chuckling at his past endeavors. • One day, Oliver enters into his private shop room, barely acknowledging his underlings, and awaits the arrival of the Duchess. When she arrives, he has her wait. In his room, under yellow gloves, he opens barred windows to get some air. Later, Oliver opens six steel safes, each containing endless riches of jewels. • The Duchess and the Jeweller are described as "... friends, yet enemies; he was master, she was mistress; each cheated the other, each needed the other, each feared the other..." On this particular day, the Duchess comes to Oliver to sell ten pearls, as she has lost substantial money to gambling. Mr. Bacon is skeptical of the pearl's authenticity, but the Duchess manipulates him into buying them for twenty thousand pounds. When the Duchess invites him to an event that includes a cast of royalty and her daughter Diana, Oliver is persuaded to write a check. • In the end, the pearls are found to be fakes, and Oliver looks at his mother's portrait, questioning his actions. However, what Oliver BOUGHT was Diana.

9. The Rocking-Horse Winner Pg.1157 Notice the modern transition from Ibsen, “the house needs more money” Living within one’s means What is essential? Today??

10. Paul: A young boy who notices that his mother doesn’t love him and his sisters, even though she “adores” them (526). When he receives a rocking horse for Christmas, he rides it often and comes to find that he can predict what horse is going to win the next big horse race. • Hester: Paul’s mother. She becomes “dissatisfied with her marriage” when she finds that her husband is not lucky and doesn’t make enough money due to that fact (Cummings). • Bassett: The family gardener. Is the one who gets Paul into horse racing, and later becomes “betting partners” (Cummings). • Oscar Creswell: Paul’s uncle and his mother’s brother. Provided the money that Paul used to make his first win at the horse race. Signed the lawyer papers in order for Paul’s mother to receive “one thousand pounds at a time, on the mother’s birthday, for the next five years” (532). Oscar becomes partners with Paul and Bassett.

11. James Joyce Paralysis-ARABY The loss of innocence The life of the mind versus poverty (both physical and intellectual) The Catholic Church's influence to make Dublin a place where desire and sensuality are seen as evil The pain that often comes when one encounters love in reality instead of its elevated form

12. The narrator: An unnamed Irish Boy who meets a young girl who he is interested in. He has always wanted to engage in a conversation with this girl. At one point in the story he does talk to the girl and they have a planned rendezvous at a Dublin bazaar. The narrator is a dynamic character, driven by his dreams and ambitions, and as he experiences his epiphany at the end of the novel, develops a new perspective on life. He is determined to speak to Mangan's sister, however he does not know how to gather his courage to do. Once he gets to speak to Mangan's sister, all his thoughts are centered around her to the point that he doesn't listen inschool anymore. At the end of the story when the narrator arrives at the bazaar, we realise there is something different about him. He ends up being too shy to purchase anything and he is in fact disappointed at himself. Although he is the main character, he is a flat character because we do not learn much about him, only his intentions and desires.Mangan's sister: We come across hearing about Mangan's sister who walks in the street while the narrator and his friends usually hide in the shadows of the street. Apparently the narrator is delighted everytime he sees her walk by. He glimpses at her everyday he sees her. forming a sort of attraction for her. One day while Mangan's sister is walking in the street she is confronted by the narrator for the first time.Narrator's uncle: The boy's uncle is the character who turns the story around according to his actions. He acts either in a wise way or in a nonchallant way towards the fact of giving the narrator money for the train, however, he enables the narrator realise that his needs to attend the bazaar were in fact only derided by vanity.

13. Musée des Beaux Arts- Auden

14. THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN- Auden • Identity, expanding government • The “social security #” • Are we a number? • DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT • Thomas • “rage, rage against the dying of the light” plea to father embrace his choice for career.

15. W. B. Yeats- SAILING TO BYZANTIUM pg. 1190 IRISH NATIONALISM, OCCULT THE SECOND COMING- incredible