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It would have suited [Cecilia] better had Briony wept and allowed herself to be comforted on the silk chaise longue in the drawing room. Such stroking and soothing murmurs would have been a release for Cecilia…addressing Briony’s problems with kind words and caresses would have restored a sense of control.
- Briony Tallis
It would have suited [Cecilia] better had Briony wept and...
- Emily Tallis
Briony and Cecilia’s mother, and the wife of Jack Tallis.She...
- Lola Quincey
Briony’s blasé cousin, two years her senior. She is raped by...
- Pierrot and Jackson Quincey
Briony’s immediate feeling was one of relief that the boys...
- Robbie Turner
Later in the novel, Briony finds him at Cecilia’s apartment...
- Paul Marshall
When he visits the Tallis family at the beginning of the...
- Themes
The tension that drives the book’s early plot is the...
- Plot Summary
Briony Tallis is a literary, self-important 13-year-old who...
- Briony Tallis
It would have suited [Cecilia] better had Briony wept and allowed herself to be comforted on the silk chaise longue in the drawing room. Such stroking and soothing murmurs would have been a release for Cecilia…addressing Briony’s problems with kind words and caresses would have restored a sense of control.
Oct 18, 2022 · It would have suited [Cecilia] better had Briony wept and allowed herself to be comforted on the silk chaise longue in the drawing room. Such stroking and soothing murmurs would have been a release for Cecilia...addressing Briony's problems with kind words and caresses would have restored a sense of control.
It would have suited [Cecilia] better had Briony wept and allowed herself to be comforted on the silk chaise longue in the drawing room. Such stroking and soothing murmurs would have been a release for Cecilia…addressing Briony’s problems with kind words and caresses would have restored a sense of control.
Summary: Part Three. Briony, now a trainee nurse at a London hospital, has noticed a change in the atmosphere, a sense of unease and anxiety. While Briony and the other trainees are usually nervous about being on the receiving end of head nurse Sister Drummond’s ire, she has noticed that Sister Drummond is too preoccupied to even terrorize ...
Analysis: Chapters Nine & Ten. Although she is technically an adult, Cecilia seems to still be on the brink between childhood and adulthood. Forced to take care of Briony and the twins, Cecilia is already weary of the responsibilities thrust upon her in the absence of her mother. As opposed to Briony, who feels ready to be an adult, Cecilia ...
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When Briony decides to share the reason for her temper with Cecilia, she characteristically chooses a word, ‘genre’ (p. 45), she has recently learnt and mispronounces it so that Cecilia does not understand her. We end up smiling at her childishness rather than recognising her maturity as she had hoped Cecilia would do.
