The message of the story

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 423.

The theme of the story

Speak on the atmosphere in the house and its effect on Paul considering the following quotations.

1. Everybody else said of her: "She is such a good mother. She adores her children." Only she herself and her children themselves, knew it was not so. They read it in each other's eyes. (1) 2. "Although they lived in style, they felt always an anxiety in the house." (2) 3. "So the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time, though nobody said it aloud. (5) 4. It came whispering.... Yet nobody ever said it aloud. The whisper was everywhere .... (6, 7) 5. The house had been "whispering" worse than ever lately, and, even in spite of his luck, Paul could not bear up against it. (27) 6. And yet the voices in the house, behind the sprays of mimosa and almond blossom, and from under the piles of iridescent cushions, simply trilled and screamed in a sort of ecstasy: "There must be more money!"

4. Which of the following phrases could be said to be:

The atmosphere in the family and its effect on a child. Where there is a will there is a way. Love, luck and money. Money is never enough.

There is no gain without a loss. "You're eighty-odd thousand to the good, a poor devil of a son to the bad." Misfortunes tell what fortune is. Money often unmakes the men who make it. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.