•1.       List all the words and phrases describing Mr. Bounderby:

•-       Rich man.

•-       Banker.

•-       Merchant .

•-       Manufacturer .

•-       A big, loud man with a stare and metallic laugh.

•-       A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples.

•-       Strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open and lift his eyebrows up.

•-       A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a ballon.

•-       A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man .

•-       A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty.

•-       A man who was the Bully of humility .

•-       He had not much hair.

•2.       Collect the 4 phrases which explicitly convey the narrator's opinion of Mr. Bounderby's character and find in a dictionary adjectives of the same meaning:

•-       A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man.    pride,arrogance,haughtiness

•-       A man who was the Bully of humility.         overpowering, bossy, high-handed

•-       A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a ballon.   guise, show, facade

•3.       Now go back to the list you made for exercise 1. which of the other items on it are connected with one or more of the author's comments:

•-       A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty.

•-       A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples.

•-       Strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open and lift his eyebrows up.

•4.       The surname of the character contains the word bounder on purpose. Look it up in the dictionary. Which of the phrases you have listed reinforces the meaning of the surname?

•-        A man who was the Bully of humility.

•-       A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty.

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•5.       Mr. Bounderby is described as coming from a poor family, without , without education and self-made. In other contexts these attributes might be presented as worthy of sympathy and/or admiration. Why aren't they here?

               Because this attributes in this context are used with an ironic tone, indeed Mr. Bounderby was a                   

               rich man, who was arrogant, bossy, and conceited.

•6.       Now go on reading and see if what Bounderby says is consistent with the description of his character.

Yes, what Bounderby says is consistent with the description of his charactes, for example he says:" For years,                                          ma'am, I was one of the mostmiserable little wretches ever seen. I was so sickly, that I was always moaning and  groaning. I was so ragged and dirty, that you wouldn't have touched me with a pair of tongs".

•7.       Which aspect/s of Bounderby's character is/are emphasised in what he says?

The aspects of Bounderby's character that is emphasized in what he says is the poverty of his childhood, indeed he says:" I hadn't a shoe to my foot. As to a stocking, I didn't know such a thing by name".

•8.       Does what he says confirm or modify his portrait in the previous text?

Bounderby in his speaking confirm his portrait in the previous text.

  9. Consider the way Bounderby speaks.

    a) Underline any repetition of pronouns, words or sentence pattern in the extract

       you have read .

    b) How would you define his way of talking

    c) How does his way of talking fit in with his character as described by the

narrator?

The narrator described his way of talking said :" A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty".