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EVALUATE BOWEN’S PORTRAYAL OF THE BIG HOUSE DANIELSTOWN IN THE NOVEL AND SHOW HOW FAR YOU AGREE WITH THIS INTERPRETATION.
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'THE BIG HOUSE. ISOLATED IN THE UNLOVING COUNTRYSIDE,IS AS MUCH THE SUBJECT OF THE NOVEL AS THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN IT.' EVALUATE BOWEN'S PORTRAYAL OF THE BIG HOUSE DANIELSTOWN IN THE NOVEL AND SHOW HOW FAR YOU AGREE WITH THIS INTERPRETATION. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a sceptical attitude toward the events going on around them, but behind the facade of tennis parties and army camp dances, all the characters know that the end is approaching, that is the end of British rule in the south of Ireland and the demise of a way of life that had survived for centuries. Their niece, Lois Farquar, attempts to live her own life and gain her own freedoms from the very class that her elders are vainly defending. Elizabeth Bowen, 1899-1973, is a central figure...
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