PART 2

I. OFFENCE

1

Henry and March are working together bringing in

Banford has gone to the trouble to make the scones

March's face is pale and strained

Banford speaks fretfully

2

a) Whatever

b) never

c) ages

d) why

e) aren't

f) nettled

g) tone

h) considered rude

j) stick

3

The way he dresses

4

Banford doesn't like:

to meet Henry's clear eyes

the strange glow in his face

his cheecks with their fine hair

his ruddy skin

the quality of his physical presence generally(too penetrating)

II NEUROSIS

1

All the situation is described in a way that conveys the tension: Banford resented the long-legged youth sticking his khaki knees out and sitting reading a book but time to time he gave a sharp look to the fire. Also Banford was trying to read but between henry and march she feels nervous.

2

a) a Captain Mayne Read book

b)

c) business of reading

d) in the story

e) knees stuck wide apart

f) sideways

g) shirt-sleeves

h) bending forward under the lamplight

i)

j) khaki

k) thick red

3

a)

Floor coverning: a Turkey rug

Colours: red surronded by a dark stain

Fire-place: green tiles

Narrator's comment: it has the latest dance music, Banford plays quite well

Decoration on the walls: hand- painted, one by March

Fire: logs nicely burning in the grate

Doors: all shut

Outside: there's a strong wind so the pine trees are hissing and shuddering

General impression of the room: cosy, refined and nice

4

she's crocheting

pursed in an odd way

wisps

herself was miles away

well shaped

like a madness

5

a)

She's trying to read sitting between the other two she feels fidgety,she keeps moving; glancing secretly at the other two, her companions, irritated by March's knees as well as Henry's; and by her crocheting.

Her eyes are bad - and the others are not very sympathetic, she has a queer, almost malignant little smile.

She wants to know what March is thinking and wants to pay for her thoughts - two pence is the usual amount as they see so deep; she speaks to March sarcastically.

She tells Henry about how she gets so bored on the farm in winter , speaking lamentably; and then mocklingly refers to his "hoping to have a lively  time here".

He refers to her thin, frail hair with its threads of grey; she bites her fingers, uses her favourite word again and again (and also whoever).

She gets frightened when she thinks that March is getting as jumpy and nervy as she is herself and cries "I feelIcan't stand another thing![...]Did you mean Henry?"

She wails,"Oh dear, my nerves are all gone for tonight", she goes to bed early, and asks March to come to bed early too.     

6

Yes, it is.

7

quickly

shraply like a puppy

shine

gravely

fine

III. I THOUGHT YOU WERE THE FOX

1

She confessed to Henry that one evening the previous summer she saw the fox looking straight up at her and he made impression on her and she confessed she thought he ware the fox.

2

a) What does March say? No, Jill will be waiting

b) What does she do? She stays, standing with "one footloose" and her face turned aside, just outside 

3

a) won't

b) she could do no

c)

d) I'm like the fox

e) young

f) lamp low

g) dim

h)

i) moment

j) silently

k)

l) softly

m) winces

n) hek

o) draws

p) quickly

q)

r) intorerably

s) Jill

IV. HENRY TELLS BANFORD ABOUT THE PROPOSAL

1

He looked around the place and attended tot he stock.

2

The narrator describes she as good-nature and nervy.

3

Yes it is but it is also a little ironic.

4

The first sentence sounds as if it were a decision taken only by him; on the contrary in the second also March is involved.

5

Eyes: wie, tired, slightly reddened

Generally: thin, frail

Hair: delicate and thin, bobbed

Face: worn

Fingers: delicate

6

In my opinion she seems to be laconic and confused.

7

1 As if she would never take it up to eat any more

2 The narrator describes her eyes

3

4 She is helpless

5 As if the sight of the food made her sick

6 the narrator describes her voice as plaintive and fretful

7 As if he were some creature in a museum

8

When he says "It's quite right" the narrator comment his behaviour using to adjectives before the noun "youth":bright and gloating

When he asks why Banford shouldn't believe his good news the narrator comment saying: "with all is soft, velvety impertinence in his voice". This sentence underlines the great ability of the youth in convincing persons.

10

HENRY

the devil still in his face

manners quite polite

goes out with the gun and comes back in the evening witha rabbit and a pigeon

in the devil of a temper

feeling he had been insulted

BANFORD

She has ben crying

manner more remote and supercilious

when Henry speaks she turns her head

V. HENRY LISTENS TO WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT HIM IN PRIVATE

2

No, I don't think so.

3

She said she could be dead in a month.

4

a) was constricted

b)him

c) sniffing around

d)loudly-barking, thick-voiced/little houses

5

a)

He is aiming at her death within a month. It's his game to see her in the churchyard.

He's only counting on what he can get out of her.

He thinks he'll .. both. And get Bailey Farm out of them.

He'll make a fool of March and leave her stranded.

He wants to be the master of both, as he thinks he's master of March already.

[...] if he can't have the place, he'll run off to Canada, as if he had neve known her.

8

If March marries Henry, she'll not live in  the same house with Henry, she'll not stop there.

VI. HENRY SHOOTS THE FOX

1

Eyes: round and wide

Ears: jumping of his head

body: frozen

3

He compares him with a cat.

4

a) was constricted

b) him

c) sniffing around

d) loudly- barking, tick- voiced/ little houses

5

He uses the word "lad".

6

I think Henry kills the fox because it was an obstacle for his relationship with March.

No, he doesn't.

She was very frightened and she didn't know what to say.

8

At first: a sliding shadow

Movements: the fox on his belly through the gate, like a snake

he will go up to the fowl door and sniff, then lie there,then.. waiting

soft as a shadow the fox sud up this incline, crouching with his nose to the boards

beating...

VII. MARCH'S SECOND DREAM

VIII. THE DEAD FOX

1

The dead fox

Gender: dogfox

Age: in its prime

Fur: thick winter

Colour: golden - red

Tail:

Banford's raction:

March's reaction -:

speech: said nothing

foot: trailing aside

hip: out

face: pale

eyes: big and black

thoughts:

actions:

Banford's reaction to Henry: walks ...

Henry's reaction to March

As always: Henry:""

She seems partly shy and ... and partly grim, matter-of-fact,...

Her words so different fom the look of ...

Henry - inside: angry

         - outside: polite and affable

           He leaves March alone without say anything