Explain how the characters of the story become revealed in the following quotations and episodes.

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the Mother 1. "In her manner she was all the more gentle and anxious for her children, as if she loved them very much. Only she herself knew that at the center of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love, no, not for anybody." (1) 2. "... her tastes were just as expensive." (4) 3. In her talk with Paul about luck. (8) 4. "She so wanted to be first in something, and she did not succeed..." (27) 5. "He knew the lawyer's letter. As his mother read it, her face hardened and became more expression­less. Then a cold, determined look came on her mouth. She hid the letter under the pile of others, and said not a word about it." (28) 6. "Why not?" she said, her voice becoming heavy when she was opposed." (33)

Paul 1. In his talk with the mother about luck. (8) 2. "Absorb­ed, taking no heed of other people, he went about with a sort of stealth, seeking inwardly for luck. ... he would sit on his big rocking-horse, charging madly into space, with a frenzy... his eyes had a strange glare about them..." (9) 3. "So he would mount again, and start on his furious ride, hoping at last to get there. He knew he could get there." (10) 4. "I started it for mother. She said she had no luck, because father is unlucky, so I thought if I was lucky, it might stop whispering." (24) 5. "Paul handed over five thousand pounds to his uncle, who deposited it with the family lawyer, who was then to inform Paul's mother that a relative had put five thousand pounds at a time, on her mother's birthday, for the next five years." (26)