Guess Person Game

Modern day character?

Answered before I saw your next post, I’m afraid. No, I wouldn’t call him a modern day character.

refugee wrote: I found it! The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights Her stove, and lays out food in tins. Out of the window perilously spread Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays, On the divan are piled (at night her bed) Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays. I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest - I too awaited the expected guest. He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire. The time is now propitious, as he guesses, The meal is ended, she is bored and tired, Endeavours to engage her in caresses Which still are unreproved, if undesired. Flushed and decided, he assaults at once; Exploring hands encounter no defence; His vanity requires no response, And makes a welcome of indifference. (And I Tiresias have foresuffered all Enacted on this same divan or bed; I who have sat by Thebes below the wall And walked among the lowest of the dead.) Bestows one final patronising kiss, And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit . . .

 

Snow Dog wrote: That is an interesting turn of phrase...you wouldn't call him modern day...hmm,,so maybe the first half of the 20th century?

No.

James wrote: A Dickensian character?

No, not Dickens.

Yes, 19th century.

I found my brother’s mail, but it’s pretty long, so I’ll give you a link to the thread I posted it in instead. I had asked him if it’s a common interpretation that Eliot describes a rape, hence the start. Scroll down until you find my loooong post.

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=72462&PN=2

refugee wrote: He’s fictional, and he’s not dead by the end of the story. (Btw, welcome back, Snowy!)

I presume this is just the way you decided to write the sentence, rather than a clue.  I read this as "he's dead at the beginning of the story but alive at the end" but I guess it just means he doesn't die in the novel?

James wrote: refugee wrote: He’s fictional, and he’s not dead by the end of the story. (Btw, welcome back, Snowy!) I presume this is just the way you decided to write the sentence, rather than a clue.  I read this as "he's dead at the beginning of the story but alive at the end" but I guess it just means he doesn't die in the novel?

No hidden clue intended. All I meant is that he doesn’t die during the story.

Yes.