Little Stranger: Chapter 3

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Notes on the most important things from chapter 3 - is colour coded and includes quotes
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Little Stranger: Chapter 3
  1. PARTY CONSCIOUSNESS
    1. Explores the idea that in order to see the true feelings of your charcaters you need to put them in a stressful situation > they reveal their true personality
    2. SETTING
      1. Breaking boundaries using the house
        1. PAGE 77 "The thought of the hall opened up to strangers unsettled me "
        2. Foreshadowing
          1. PAGE 80 "Bleeding itself into the rapidly darkening sky" > pathetic fallacy > typical technique
            1. PAGE 81 "The staircase ascended into the shadows"
              1. Piano out of tune - metaphor for the mood - PAGE 93
              2. Sense of isolation
                1. PAGE 76 "The family lived in so isolated and precarious a way"
                2. PAGE 81 - Saloon description
                  1. PAGE 97-100 - stereotypical use of gore
                  2. CHARACTER
                    1. FARADAY
                      1. Becomes more obsessive with Hundred's Hall
                        1. PAGES 75-76
                          1. "I looked forward to the visits; they made such a contrast with the rest of my workaday existence"
                            1. "small adventurous thrill" > transgression
                              1. PAGE 92 -The girl drinking wine and smoking = transgression
                          2. During the party, Faraday is out of place > his mood worsens + tension increases > FARADAY'S MOOD LINKS TO THE EVENT AT THE PARTY > FARADAY CAUSED IT ?
                            1. PAGE 80
                              1. Prefers Caroline without make up and not classily dressed > shows he's controlling?
                                1. links to class?
                                  1. PAGE 86 - Good for class differences
                                    1. Different clothes - shows old/new world differences
                                      1. PAGE 87 + 87
                                        1. PAGE 95 Betty's uniform
                                      2. PAGE 82
                                      3. The Little Stranger is Faraday's repressed emotions - Links to the gothic idea of the double, similar the Harker in Dracula
                                        1. PAGE 96 "But I had wished... I had acted differently
                                    2. PAGE 79 shows age and differences between Caroline and Faraday
                                      1. BETTY
                                        1. Her and Gyp notice the supernatural presence
                                          1. PAGE 83 "Everything's jumpy in this house
                                            1. PAGE 87 - Gyp barking
                                      2. SUPERNATURAL
                                        1. PAGE 89 "creeping chill and dampness in the air"
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