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'The Man Who Loved Children
Title: 'The Man Who Loved Children
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 482 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
'The Man Who Loved Children
Commentary on a section of ‘The man who loved children’ by Christina Stead.
The passage depicts a family and their move into a new home. The main character is Henny, the mother, a depressive and lonely character. The extract focuses on Henny’s emotional descriptions of the new surroundings.
Henny feels an instant dislike for the house; she refers to it as a ‘tenement’, suggesting decay and that it is falling apart. Her anger and …showed first 75 words of 482 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 482 total…the second stanza that Henny has a weak heart and therefore cannot drink coffee. The way she sits in the rocking chair and people wait on her suggests that she is very ill and frail. The family may have moved house from the city so that she would become happier and healthier. If so, Henny is rejecting this charity; she feels uncomfortable in these new surroundings, a stranger in what is supposedly her own home.
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