In paragraph 3 Matthew continues the cohesion by repeating the lexeme marriage. Walter answers anaphorically in paragraph 2. Matthew begins with an observation about marriage. Muriel Spark, 1960, The Bachelors Analysis of lexical cohesion ‘Put that vulgar little bit of paper away,’ Walter said. Since 1951 the bachelor population has increased by –’ġ2. ‘Unmarried males of thirty and over,’ said Matthew: ‘three hundred and fifty-eight thousand one hundred. Monet was silent for fully ten minutes – the painting was a simple, but rather exquisite roof-top scene –’ġ1. ‘I can see him now,’ said Walter, ‘as he was when he was assisted into a chair before my easel. That’s including divorced and widowed, of course, but the majority are bachelors –’ġ0. Unmarried males of twenty-one and over: six hundred and fifty-nine thousand five hundred. He straightened out the sheet, following the typewritten lines with his finger, as he read out, ‘Greater London, the census of 1951. ‘These are the figures,’ Matthew said, and took from inside his coat a bundle of papers from which he selected one which had been folded in four, and which was split and grubby at the folds. Just before he died he visited my studio with his friends, and –’ĩ. It’s everyone’s duty to be fruitful and multiply according to his calling either spiritual or temporal, as the case may be.’Ĩ. ‘I’ll tell you this much,’ Matthew said, ‘there’s no justification for being a bachelor and that’s the truth, let’s face it. ‘I went abroad to paint, but my cousin the Marquise –’ħ. She’s got long black hair.’ He saddened into silence and gazed upon the girl in jeans dispassionately, recognizing her as Ronald’s former girl-friend.Ħ. Matthew said, ‘I know a girl who’s expecting a baby by an old spiritualist. My hair turned white at the age of nineteen.’ĥ. The family made a settlement and I went abroad to paint. Of course there was no question of my marrying his daughter. The butler caught him reading Nietzsche in the pantry. ‘I got a young woman into trouble at the age of eighteen,’ Walter said. Every time I go home to Ireland my mother’s ashamed that I’m not married to a girl.’Ĥ. My sister wants me to get married and so does my uncle. ‘Only my brother-in-law thinks I should get married. ‘I haven’t anyone in mind,’ Matthew said. ‘I’m thinking of getting married,’ Matthew said.ģ. Soon as he talks to her on the phone, he realizes something is wrong. Initially he picks up the phone thinking someone's playing a joke. Kevin gets a call from that reality's Emily in the end. Other realities, well, that’s not part of this film. On answering theĬall, he gives a suspicious look towards Emily Prime and she staresīack with guilt. She wakes up the next morning on the sofa. First she throws her in the trunk and later attacks her in theīathroom and puts her in the bathtub. Emily Prime sneaks up on her double and drugs She wasn't dead for sure.Įmily Prime wants to replace the Emily from this reality and take on We don't know why, probably she was freaked out seeing her double. At the same time that reality's Emily has upped and gone away. Everyone seems normal which means no one knows of the two Emilys yet. The next morning the Emily from the bathtub is missing. The previous night she's attacked the Emily from that reality and put her in the bathtub. The Emily in the last scene is not from that reality. More info: Many-worlds interpretation and Director's interview. I did the analysis based on the movie, similar movies and quantum physics. To summarize, it means that she woke up in an alternate reality, one that the others didn't left the house, one that she only changes places. In front of her, that guy receives a call, and that was herself in the beginning of the movie, which moments later arrived at the house and was hit in the bathroom by her at the end. Then the guy gives her the ring that was left in the bathroom last night. She wakes up and walks outside and see the car glass broken. We see that she has two rings, one she has on, and the other that was in the bathroom that night before she fainted in the hall. The one she hides in the bathroom wakes up in yet another alternate reality. The one she put in the trunk of the car wakes up in another alternate reality. This is caused by a chain reaction she triggered by her and her actions. Another her also broke the car glass in other alternate realities. She also broke the car glass in one reality. In other alternate realities this repeats. In another reality she hits another her.
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