6 Feet of Country
Question: Analyse how the growth or breakdown of a character relationship or individual in a text (or texts) you have studied?
Analyse the deterioting relationship between the narrator and his wife Lerice.
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” Within the text “Six Feet of the Country” by Nadine Gordimer, we are given insight into a deterioting relationship. The negative narrator and his wife’s relationship is slowly crumbling due his lack of interest with her. The tension and flaws of their relationship become apparent during the climatic event of the illegal immigrants death. This moment is a defining point of their relationship, and displays how the manifestation of their small arguments has pulled them apart.
The narrator of “Six Feet of Country” is an introverted, self-fish and pessimistic man. He is unhappy and disappointed with his marriage, and he cannot come to terms with it. “You seem to rattle about so much within a marriage like ours,” suggesting that him and his wife encounter many problems, due to opposing views. Throughout the first few lines we become well aware that the narrator extremely dislikes his wife. He continually makes degrading remarks and this displays his utter disrespect that he has for her. Majority of his cruel taunts are about her physical appearance and how she has failed in life as an actress. He describes her hands as “hard as dog’s pads.” Implying that she could never be an actress because she wasn’t glamorous enough and was never going to be the kind of lady who wore “red paint and diamond rings.” It would be fair to say that he finds the physical appearance of his wife disappointing. This idea is reinforced when he negatively comments about her “uncombed hair”. This remark about her appearance displays his misogynistic behaviour. His cynical and negative remarks reveal the narrators inner thoughts, that his wife is the problem. She has let herself go and is therefore no
Analyse the deterioting relationship between the narrator and his wife Lerice.
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” Within the text “Six Feet of the Country” by Nadine Gordimer, we are given insight into a deterioting relationship. The negative narrator and his wife’s relationship is slowly crumbling due his lack of interest with her. The tension and flaws of their relationship become apparent during the climatic event of the illegal immigrants death. This moment is a defining point of their relationship, and displays how the manifestation of their small arguments has pulled them apart.
The narrator of “Six Feet of Country” is an introverted, self-fish and pessimistic man. He is unhappy and disappointed with his marriage, and he cannot come to terms with it. “You seem to rattle about so much within a marriage like ours,” suggesting that him and his wife encounter many problems, due to opposing views. Throughout the first few lines we become well aware that the narrator extremely dislikes his wife. He continually makes degrading remarks and this displays his utter disrespect that he has for her. Majority of his cruel taunts are about her physical appearance and how she has failed in life as an actress. He describes her hands as “hard as dog’s pads.” Implying that she could never be an actress because she wasn’t glamorous enough and was never going to be the kind of lady who wore “red paint and diamond rings.” It would be fair to say that he finds the physical appearance of his wife disappointing. This idea is reinforced when he negatively comments about her “uncombed hair”. This remark about her appearance displays his misogynistic behaviour. His cynical and negative remarks reveal the narrators inner thoughts, that his wife is the problem. She has let herself go and is therefore no