Ch.11

Question 1

What phrase from chapter 2 is repeated at beginning of chapter 11?

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Answer 1

• “everything is as it was, and everything has changed.”

Question 2

How does Stephen describe himself looking back on his life?

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Answer 2

• “Stephen Wheatley has become this old man, treading in footsteps of his former self.”

Question 3

How is it clear that Stephen, even as an old man, still self-depricated himself?

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Answer 3

• “my job was never a real job.”
• Still looking up to Keith being better than him, being a lawyer.

Question 4

Irony of Stephen hating Germans throughout the whole book?

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Answer 4

• He is German.
• Changed his name from Stefan to Stephen.

Question 5

How does Stephen describe his Jewish heritage?

Answer 5

• “what we were”: what = indocrinated to believe that he is less of a person.
• “We were the Juice in a Juiceless district.” –> people at Trenwennick were Orthodox Greeks.
• Shows racial prejudice of The Close.