The Loons 主要人物分析

Character II
A violent and talkative girl
① Appearance and manner: • …, so stolidand expressionless before, was animated now with
a gaiety that was almost violent. • She laughed and talked very loudly … ② Events • She saw me, and walked over. • “All the old bitches an’ biddies in this town will sure be surprised. I’m getting’ married this
The Character Analysis of
Piquette in The Loons
The background
Author: Margaret Laurence
• One of the major contemporary Canadian writers
Social:
• A big mosaic of multi-nationalities, multireligions and multi-cultures
• In the 1960s and ‘80s, a lot of good literature works about the female psychology and the living space of the minority were created.
Character I
A stolid and humble girl
Character woman
• …Either her husband left her, or she left him… • …she’d been drinking most of day… • …looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern, and dressed any old how
fall—my boy friend, he’s an English fella…
Cause
• …I could guess her need must have been, that she had forced to seek the very things she so bitterly rejected.
Cause
① Living conditions • House: shack • The source of income: When their man were not working at odd jobs or as sections hands on the
C.P.R. they lived on relief. ② Origin • …they did not belong among the Scots-Irish and Ukrainians of Manawaka, either. They were ,
as my grandmother Macleod would have put it, neither flesh, fowl, nor good salt herring.
• “I don’t know what in hell you’re talkin’ about,” she replied.” You nuts or somethin? If you mean where my old man, and me, and all them live, you better shut up , by Jesus, you hear?
Character?
Birth and social?
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