so here are the questions without any intro this time because i’ve already put a post similar to this before :
1- but she
remembered her mother–her mother in that very room rebuking her. “Don’t
stand gaping, Lucy, or the wind’ll change . . .” How often her mother had
rebuked her in that very room–“but in a very different world,” as her
brother would remind her”
so ” in a very diffrent world ” is a completion of her mother saying which was interupted (hence the three points ) or is it related to ” in that very room” by which the meaning will become that the past was a very diffrent world than the present even though the place is the same.
2 – Mrs. Haines, the wife of the gentleman farmer, a goosefaced woman with
eyes protruding as if they saw something to gobble in the gutter ” so here why did she choose ” gutter” she could have said “lake” or “river” or ” pond ” but she said “gutter”, i’ve never seen fish in the gutter before!
so here’s my q’s, i’m thankful to anyone who steps up to help an english learner like myself, and excuse my english
by SaidNadir2021
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1. I think the idea that the past was a different world from the present is correct.
2. In city environments, geese pretty much wander around eating whatever they come across. If there’s a bit of bread or something floating in the gutter, they’ll happily grab it. It wouldn’t be a fish (unless it’s a little bit of fried haddock that fell off of somebody’s fish and chips). I think “gutter” has the advantage of both echoing the g-sounds of goose and gobble and also suggesting that what excites/interests her is “trash”. More likely to be gossip than literal trash, of course, but nosing after gossip is definitely closer to poking in the gutter after bits of food than it is to catching a fresh fish.