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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #1
The protagonist, Philip, who was born with a club foot, moved in with his uncle Mr. Carey, the Vicar of Blackstable after his mother's death.
He dropped out of King's School at Tercanbury, came to Germany, and stays at the Frau Professor Erlin's lodging house with several guests.
Hayward is the new lodger from Cambridge, thinks lightly of Weeks from America.
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Weeks had two little rooms at the back of Frau Erlin's house, and one of them, arranged as a parlour, was comfortable enough for him to invite people to sit in. After supper, urged perhaps by the impish humour which was the despair of his friends in Cambridge, Mass., he often asked Philip and Hayward to come in for a chat. He received them with elaborate courtesy and insisted on their sitting in the only two comfortable chairs in the room. Though he did not drink himself, with a politeness of which Philip recognised the irony, he put a couple of bottles of beer at Hayward's elbow, and he insisted on lighting matches whenever in the heat of argument Hayward's pipe went out. At the beginning of their acquaintance Hayward, as a member of so celebrated a university, had adopted a patronising attitude towards Weeks, who was a graduate of Harvard; and when by chance the conversation turned upon the Greek tragedians, a subject upon which Hayward felt he spoke with authority, he had assumed the air that it was his part to give information rather than to exchange ideas. Weeks had listened politely, with smiling modesty, till
Hayward finished; then he asked one or two insidious questions, so innocent in appearance that Hayward, not seeing into what a quandary they led him, answered blandly
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
1. I think "his friends in Cambridge" refers to Hayward.
So I was wondering why it is "his friends in Cambridge," not "his friend in Cambridge."
2. I'd like to know what "Mass." meas.
3. I'd like to know what "his part" means.
4. And I'd like to know if "so innocent in appearance" modifies "he."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He dropped out of King's School at Tercanbury, came to Germany, and stays at the Frau Professor Erlin's lodging house with several guests.
Hayward is the new lodger from Cambridge, thinks lightly of Weeks from America.
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Weeks had two little rooms at the back of Frau Erlin's house, and one of them, arranged as a parlour, was comfortable enough for him to invite people to sit in. After supper, urged perhaps by the impish humour which was the despair of his friends in Cambridge, Mass., he often asked Philip and Hayward to come in for a chat. He received them with elaborate courtesy and insisted on their sitting in the only two comfortable chairs in the room. Though he did not drink himself, with a politeness of which Philip recognised the irony, he put a couple of bottles of beer at Hayward's elbow, and he insisted on lighting matches whenever in the heat of argument Hayward's pipe went out. At the beginning of their acquaintance Hayward, as a member of so celebrated a university, had adopted a patronising attitude towards Weeks, who was a graduate of Harvard; and when by chance the conversation turned upon the Greek tragedians, a subject upon which Hayward felt he spoke with authority, he had assumed the air that it was his part to give information rather than to exchange ideas. Weeks had listened politely, with smiling modesty, till
Hayward finished; then he asked one or two insidious questions, so innocent in appearance that Hayward, not seeing into what a quandary they led him, answered blandly
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
1. I think "his friends in Cambridge" refers to Hayward.
So I was wondering why it is "his friends in Cambridge," not "his friend in Cambridge."
2. I'd like to know what "Mass." meas.
3. I'd like to know what "his part" means.
4. And I'd like to know if "so innocent in appearance" modifies "he."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. You're looking at it the wrong way round. The fact that it says "friends" shows you that it can't mean Hayward alone.
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- You're looking at it the wrong way round.
- The fact that it says "friends" shows you that it can't mean Hayward alone.
- It's possible that it could refer to a group of people including Philip and/or Hayward, or it could refer to a different group of friends, depending on who comes from Cambridge, Mass.
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1. You're looking at it the wrong way round. The fact that it says "friends" shows you that it can't mean Hayward alone. It's possible that it could refer to a group of people including Philip and/or Hayward, or it could refer to a different group of friends, depending on who comes from Cambridge, Mass.
2. Massachusetts (US state). Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the site of Harvard U
2. Massachusetts (US state). Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the site of Harvard U
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Thank you, GPY, for your So very helpful answer. 
Massachusetts (US state). Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the site of
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park sang joon4. I was wondering if how questions can have appearance.Yes, questions can have an innocent appearance. They can appear innocent (and yet actually be tricky).
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