PART1-CHAPTER1

INTERPRETATION

Contrast between 2 lifestyles

VIC: many worries:
work
family (Marjorie, Raymond, Sandra, Gary)
midlife-crisis
Marjorie: menopause/ valium
Pleasure: driving to work
Newspaper: Daily Mail
Pringles :
environment
Shirley

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ROBYN
Temporary Lecturer in English
Literarture al the University of Rummidge

The Guardian
CHARLES :
academic interests
in common

- Free relationship

- Lecturer al Suffolk
Philip Swallow: Head of the English
Department

 ROBYN

Born in Melbourne

Moved to England

A father, a mother and a brother (Basil)

-Looks: tall and slender

Grey green eyes

Curly copper hair

-Personality: self-confident

Independent

Strong-willed

INTERPRETATION
Robyn: Different view of reality because of her
background and Reading
Idea of love
Wearing loose dark clothes feminism-inner values
Surname: Pen-rose
Her courses are over-suscribed
She has always little time
She attended courses at Sussex ( open-mind,
modern)

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INTERPRETATION

LITERATURE
Life= literature
Robyn against some themes
Books at the beginning of each
chapter

PART2- CHAPTERS 1 AND 2

Trip to Pringles
Brian Everthorpe ( Marketing
Director)
Meeting Vic
Talk about picketing

PART 3- CHAPTER 1
Robyn feels awkward after the days at the
foundry
Vic: Asian workers demonstrate

Wants Robyn to lie to Danny Ram

A promise form Vic

She talks to Danny for the workers benefit.
She feels bad later.

CHAPTER 2
Saturday/ Sunday (his father)

Marjorie wants sexual contact : they have it because Vic thinks of Robyn
andra comes home.Vic checks shes right.
aymond and friends making noise

CHAPTER 3

INTERPRETATION
Mr Wilcox Senior

Very traditional
Influence on his son
Racist
Likes to buy old stuff

Debbie

More modern than Robyn

Likes her job

Open-minded
Robyn doesnt like her

underclassed

Vic and Marjorie

ROBYN
-She loves her job

wage is not important

-She doesnt want sexual contact

the pill (feminism)

PART 4-CHAPTER 1
Leeds:

Pringles

Foundrax

Rawlinsons

University
On the telephone

Vic tells her the third firm

is Foundray

She ends the conversation

quickly

Vics office
He talks to his employees

He lied
to Brian

He
wants to fire him

about the
-In love with Robyn

with Shirley
calendar.

INTERPRETATION
Robyn

Brian

Shirley

VIC

PART4-CHAPTER2
SUMMARY:
ROBYN :-Winter term :

-Every Wednesday she drives to the factory.

-Weekend visits of Charles

-Plenty of work
-Shadow Scheme:

- she resents distraction from her work

-She feels superior

-Charles

They talk about the fact that many people areny interested in what they do.

VIC
-Shows no respect
-finds out
for Robyns skills
about Brian
& Shirley.
MARJORIE
suspicion.

-invites her
to lunch

she feels fear and

INTERPRETATION
VIC
compares Robyn to a
picture ( a godness without lover or
husband) and himself as peeping
Tom

against hanky-panky
ROBYN
ADMIRES Vic, but shes
sceptical

positive

PART 4- CHAPTER 3
The meal

The walk

After the meeting

INTERPRETATION
Robyn

VIC

About Marjorie

Worries about future

PART 5- CHAPTER 1

At the disco

INTERPRETATION
Relationship

NICE WORK?

Chapter 2
Sex

clear difference between

Robyn and Vic

This is his first time

Romantic love

Chapters 3 & 4

INTERPRETATION
VIC

New machine

Charles

Marjorie

PART 6- CHAPTER 1
tUTORIAL

 Vic is confronted with the academic

life and the special way of work
Robyn makes clear University is not a
commercial institution

Interpretation
Robyn/Vic

CHAPTER 2
The end
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