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Wise Children. Explore the ways Carter presents the relationship between the two sets of daughters
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Explore the ways Carter presents the relationship between the two sets of daughters. In this extract, reconciliation of the disjointed Hazard family is attempted as Lady Atlanta has invited Dora and Nora to Saskia and Imogen's twenty first birthday party. Carter uses the two sets of daughters to contrast with each other and the party conveys the difference in social upbringing, class and character between them. Dora intimates that they [Nora and Dora] are born on the 'wrong side of the tracks' in Brixton which is on 'the bastard side of the River Thames,' thus illustrating the social stigma associated with being illegitimate. On the contrary, Saskia and Imogen live in Lynde Court in East Sussex; a suburban, wealthy area reflecting their status as they are legitimate The 'blood' imagery highlights that they are blood relations, and is used perhaps to epitomise the generation gap between the two sets of...
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