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The Man of Property - Coggle Diagram
The Man of Property
- The short dialogue and the silence of Irene
full of straight forward, brief and abrupt questions and answers
uncomfortable, lack of love and true emotion
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Irene was careful with her words, gesture, motion for she didn't want to be misunderstood by Soams
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- Soames's Attitude to Physical appearance
His house: For its size, the house was commodious; there were countless nooks resembling bird
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Means to show off
His way of dressing
into white waistcoats in summer,
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to dust his patent leather boots before a great multitude assembled on Speech Day to hear him recite Moliere.
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impossible to conceive of him with a hair out of place,
His wife:
Soames liked her to dine in a low dress, it gave him an inexpressible feeling of superiority to the majority of his acquaintance,
- The sense of property of Soams
The wife, husband and their relationship
Life Style
.The wife: simple
"her amber-colored hair", "bathing in wayside streams, for the joy of the freshness"
The husband: particular about appearance, strong sense of competition
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The weekend dinner
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The way they sit: The happy pair were seated, not opposite each other, but rectangularly, at the handsome rosewood table; they dined without a cloth
Their talking: Soames liked to talk during dinner about business, or what he had been buying, and so long as he talked Irene’s silence did not distress him.
The atmosphere:
His nervousness about this disclosure irritated him profoundly; she had no business to make him feel like that—a wife and a husband being one person
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