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the "Grey town", either Hell or
Where does the Purgatory depending on the soul
story take or how long one stays there.
place? Narrator is standing in line (queue),
waiting for the bus.
What is the - dreary, dull, dirty, and bleak
mood/atmosph - for all its vastness, seems empty
ere/weather of and insubstantial
the place where - "always in the rain and always
the story in evening twilight."
happens?
, DREARY LAND
- always twilight
- phantom-like and vacuous,
populated by continuous ghosts
- dark and dingy
Where does the - small and compressed
action of the
novel unfold? CELESTIAL REALM/SOLID LAND
- solid, substantial
- inhabited by "solid people"
- sunny and full of life
- enlarged and open, topography
like earth
What is the Ghosts, including the narrator
form of the
people in grey
town or hell in
the story?
What was the The land so solid that it hurts them
conflict to walk on and is too heavy for
between the them to pick up.
ghosts and the
land?
The Great Divorce 2025 Questions
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,Terms in this set (69)
the "Grey town", either Hell or
Where does the Purgatory depending on the soul
story take or how long one stays there.
place? Narrator is standing in line (queue),
waiting for the bus.
What is the - dreary, dull, dirty, and bleak
mood/atmosph - for all its vastness, seems empty
ere/weather of and insubstantial
the place where - "always in the rain and always
the story in evening twilight."
happens?
, DREARY LAND
- always twilight
- phantom-like and vacuous,
populated by continuous ghosts
- dark and dingy
Where does the - small and compressed
action of the
novel unfold? CELESTIAL REALM/SOLID LAND
- solid, substantial
- inhabited by "solid people"
- sunny and full of life
- enlarged and open, topography
like earth
What is the Ghosts, including the narrator
form of the
people in grey
town or hell in
the story?
What was the The land so solid that it hurts them
conflict to walk on and is too heavy for
between the them to pick up.
ghosts and the
land?
