Lit Quotes Exam 1 Year 11

Passion, jumps

“Oh Stan!” ‘She jumps up and kisses him,’

Passion, animal

‘They stare at each other. They come together with low, animal moans.’

Passion, noise

“God honey, it’s going to be so sweet when we can make noise in the night again,”

DV, thigh

‘Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh,’

DV, blow

‘There is the sound of a blow. Stella cries out.’

DV, arm

‘He seizes her arm.’ “Don’t you ever talk that way to me.”

Dependence, away

“I can hardly stand it when he’s away for the night.”

Dependence, get out

“I am not in anything I want to get out of.”

Dependence, story

“I could not believe her story and go on living with Stanley.”

Suppressed, forbidden

“forbidden to ‘work’… Personally I disagree with their ideas.”

Suppressed, write

“I must put this away - he hates to have me write a word.”

Suppressed, imaginative

“He says with my imaginative power and my habit of story-making,”

Identity Fragments, stir

“He hardly lets me stir without special direction.”

Identity Fragments, advice

“It is so discouraging not to have any advice,”

Identity Fragments, don’t

“I don’t know why I should write this. I don’t want to. I don’t feel able.”

Woman, because

“I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.”

Woman, shakes

“The woman behind shakes it,”

Woman, out

“I got out at last.”

Truth and Objectivity, silver

“I am silver and exact.”

Truth and Objectivity, Preconceptions

“I have no preconceptions.”

Truth and Objectivity, swallow

“Whatever I see I swallow immediately.”

Identity and Self-Perception, bends

“A woman bends over me,/ she searches my reaches for what she really is.”

Identity and Self-Perception, lake

“Now I am a lake.”

Identity and Self-Perception, drowned

“In me she has drowned a young girl.”

Validation, morning

“Each morning it is her face which replaces the darkness.”

Validation, rewards

“She rewards me with tears and the agitation of hands.”

Validation, routine

“She comes and goes.”