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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Denying me my father...

Guy tells the story how he followed his mother to
the forest and saw her with his father.

She told me I had to forget dad had ever existed.
Yet here she was, (Nevertheless?) denying me my father. Refusing to let Guy near his father?
  

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" just means that she was in some place ("here") doing the thing mentioned. It's not clear from this fragment what incident he's referring to, and it may be that "here she was" refers to her general behaviour rather than to a specific, identified place and time. "denying me my father" means pretty much what you say: refusing to let him see his father, never talking about him about his father, and so on.

— Mr Wordy

  • " just means that she was in some place ("here") doing the thing mentioned.
  • It's not clear from this fragment what incident he's referring to, and it may be that "here she was" refers to her general behaviour rather than to a specific, identified place and time.
  • "denying me my father" means pretty much what you say: refusing to let him see his father, never talking about him about his father, and so on.
  • I don't understand the use of "yet".
  • One expects "yet" to introduce a contrasting statement, but here it seems to be introducing a statement that reinforces what's already been said.
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"here she was..." just means that she was in some place ("here") doing the thing mentioned. It's not clear from this fragment what incident he's referring to, and it may be that "here she was" refers to her general behaviour rather than to a specific, identified place and time.

"denying me my father" means pretty much what you say: refusing to let him see his father, never talking about
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Yes, I think the use of the word "yet" here is plain wrong, for the reason Mr Wordy has already spelt out.
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