The Ghost Road chapter 5
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- The Ghost Road Chapter 5
- "Ada Lumb always wore black, less in mourning for her husband - if she'd ever had one" Page 65
- Unreliable narrative could just be Billy being humorous, she may not have a husband
- Independent women
- "Respectability was Ada's god" Page 65
- Irony Ada isn't respectable
- Sells dodgy goods
- Contraception and medicines for sexually transmitted diseases
- Sells dodgy goods
- Traditional victorian views
- Respectability dominated society
- Irony Ada isn't respectable
- "Ada had no patience with flowers, always drooping and dying" Page 66
- Ada has no time for vanity
- Billy has met his match in Ada
- Page 67 Irony Ada is over 30 but still refuses to vote
- Very traditional
- Page 67/68 shows how women were in a different war for survival and rights
- 'straddled her legs like a mare and ****** in the gutter' Page 69
- Ada very common
- Simile
- Colloquial language
- 'Fingerprints, translucent with butter, encrusted with batter, sticky with jam, edged every page. Bloody thumbprints led up to one particularly glory muder' Page 71
- Internal rhyme, adjectives
- Sexual references?
- 'A few romances which she read with every appearance of enjoyment, gurgles of laughter erupting from the black bombazine like a hot spring from volcanic earth' Page 71
- Simile
- Can't fully trust Ada
- Simile
- 'The clock ticked loudly,as it had done all last night, a malevolent tick' Page 71
- Personification of the clock
- Countdown to Billy's death
- Personification of the clock
- 'he could see five or six different shades of copper, auburn, bronze, even a strand of pure gold' Page 74
- Plain metals
- Strong
- Simple
- Strand of gold
- Symbolises her old life or what would have been her future with Billy
- Plain metals
- "The whiting out seemed almost to be an unintended symbol of the oblivion into which we all go" Page 75
- Symbolic fading after death
- Not leaving a mark on the world
- Symbolic fading after death
- Page 85 the pigeons are a metaphor for soldiers going to war or freedom
- "Ada Lumb always wore black, less in mourning for her husband - if she'd ever had one" Page 65
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