Jack & Leon
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- Created on: 19-01-22 21:54
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- Jack & Leon
- About Jack
- hard-working & generous - R's patron, supports Grace
- Never home, ministry in London - secret gov prep for war
- Ends aid to R when he is accused
- Jack Quotes
- ‘Jack Tallis did not have it in him to turn out a young women and her child’
- ‘his presence imposed order and allowed freedom. Burdens were lifted’
- ‘calm, affable, utterly certain, a crisis in the kitchen became no more than a humorous sketch; without him, it was a drama that clutched the heart’
- ‘the household’s protector, its guarantor of tranquillity, was relied on to take the long view’
- ‘I’m going to put the telephone down now, Emily, because I’m going to call the police’
- ‘working far too hard…he looked tired and thin...he was furious about the vase and actually shouted at Betty, which was so unlike him’
- ‘lived after his second marriage'
- About Leon
- Typical 1930s ******* - period of jubilation & ease
- Enjoys freedom, careless of his social predicaments
- Extremely close to C, B's idol, close friends w/ R - well rounded guy, admired by everyone
- Voice of optimism and hope, but blind & ignorant toward the war
- End - V old & inept, had 4 marriages & lots of kids still v likable
- Leon Quotes
- ‘sweet-natured and content and surrounded by successful friends. Too handsome, too popular, no sting of unhappiness and ambition’
- ‘Leon, who had the pure gift of avoiding responsibility, would not assume his father’s role’
- 'had always floated free, and she had always loved him for it’
- ‘Literature and politics, science and religion did not bore him – they simply had no place in his world, and nor did any matter about which people seriously disagreed’
- ‘his lack of ambition’
- ‘conjuring a world of good intentions and pleasant outcomes’
- ‘entirely at one with himself’
- ‘the brotherly banter was relentless’
- ‘I think you ought to phone the constable’
- ‘the true hero he was’
- About Jack
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