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jacksons wife
objectified as "jacksons wife"
a trophy that he shows off
"she was smiling as if she expected someone to take a photograph of her
looks down on people
"she took no pleasure" in her memory of the jamisions
"she smiled trailing her fur coat"
jackson
status
rich, posh feels he is better than everyone else there
"square red ring"
out of place
"black polished car"
racist towards black people
and glaswegians
"a pack of children
"reminded him of some africans he had seen ,insolent young toughs, town bred"
blacks weret like us
"to tell someone how well he had done"
plot
nostalgia
they rember who used to live there and what life was like
"but they don't steal things here"
change
there home is different
"lovers lane had disapeared"
conflict
jackson felt mistreated by some people
a group of youths go near his car and he is afraid of them despite living there
home
they remember why they left and prefer Africa
snear at everyone else as they stay in a posh hotel
setting
glasgow
old flats
run down area
there old home
"the flat faced shops looked back at them blankyl
"walls were brown and dirty blue below,pitted scars"
protestants vs catholics
themes
social status
jacksons only went home to show off and see how far he had come
no desire to reconnect only to fuel his ego
obsess over the superficial aspects of being rich
crichton uses the jacksons to show that you need to see the situation of others
erosion of community
glasgow is portrayed as broken apart
super markets have takenover the community small shops
inhabitants didnt interact with each other and are seperate