Setting

• 'glittering air'
• 'cream houses ran away into the west like a pale victorian watercolour'
• 'crowd...seemed thick like a forest in which a native could arrange his poisoned ambush'' pg 9
• 'lighting on the horizon and thunder coming closer'
• 'the nelson palace eyes stared back without understanding'
• 'dark wash of the sea'
• 'statley velvet couches stamped with crowns in gold and silver thread'
• 'torn up as if by bomb bursts'
• 'the black kitchen stove with cold dead charcoal on the floor'
• motif of 'crumbs'
• 'the crowd uncoiled endlessly past him like a twisted piece of wire' pg 4
• 'crumbly stained desert of cloths' snows
• 'banister shook' franks
• 'rich victorian room' cosmepolitan
• 'pale green sea washed into the scarred and shabby side of England'
• 'staircase matted with old newspaper' nelson place
• 'surged like somme natural and irrational miigration of insects' racecourse