5th December 2019

-Connell understands Marianne accepts violence from other people and that makes her dependent on others. However he did not want that guys are violent towards Marianne, because she is subjected to these people.

-Marianne suffers from domestic violence by her father and her brother. In particular, her brother Alan is very violent against her for different reasons:

• because he took the father's position who also was aggressive towards Marianne;
• because he is afraid and therefore he is violent;
• because violence is a cultural aspect.
• because  he has not her control and the control over everything;
• He missed her mother and he exercised his missing over her sister.

• it is clear the typical victorian idea of the householder where the father have to manage every situation which regard the family and he has to take every decision and its consequence is the man attitude to be violent.
• Alan is a typical victorian character.
• the novel is also a Postmodernist one but Alan is not a Postmodernist character, since in Postmodernism there is a specific idea of a male gender character.

-  Alan uses a very vulgar, violent, low and aggressive language.

• Alan becomes totally aggressive towards Marianne in the section july 2014 because he doesn’t want to be inferior to women and the reason why he has been so violent is because he doesn’t want her sister goes out with Connell since they belong to different social classes and Alan defines him a knacker (= macellaio).

At page 239: 

• "Now she knows that in the intervening years Connell has been growing slowly more adjusted to the world...": Marianne does not consider positive that Connell grew up by a process of adjustment to the world because it means he always looks for agreement by other people and that he is afraid of expressing his idea. Anyway, Connell seems to be more at ease in Carricklea than in Dublin, since in the small village he was the most popular boy and since building relationships is difficult for him.
• "Alan come up from the kitchen with a bottle of beer in his hand": it gives the idea that Alan was an alcoholic man. Since alcohol allows people to do what they normally do not do, Alan is probably a man who is not used to face problems. However, Marianne is powerless in front of her brother: she feels as if she were in a prison, without any exit way.
• "I thought you liked him, says Marianne. You did when he were in shcool.": reference to when they attended High School when Alan probably liked Connell, since he was popular and appreciate from other people. (point of references are chosen according to what people need);
• "I suppose you'd have to ask him": Marianne tries not to answer him because she does not want to give herself away and revealing everything.