Chapter 1 - Story of the door

Cards (21)

  • never lighted by a smile (Utterson)
  • lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable (Utterson)
  • ‘I incline to Cain’s heresy I let my brother go to the devil in his own way’
    Utterson
  • descriptions of nice area of London
    ‘the shopfronts stood along the thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling women‘ ‘the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood’
  • descriptions of poor area of London
    ‘a certain sinister block of building thrust forward’
  • description of the door
    ‘blistered and distained’
  • a little man who was stumping along 

    Enfield - deformity
  • Trampled calmly
  • Like some damned Juggernaut
  • Gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running
  • I had taken a loathing to my gentlemen at first sight
  • Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him
  • A kind of black, sneering coolnes
  • Really like Satan
  • signed with a name that I can’t mention
  • The very pink of the properties
  • Something displeasing, something downright detestable, I never saw a man I so disliked
  • He gives a strong feeling of deformity
  • I really can name nothing out of the way (Hyde)

    Enfield
  • I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning

    Enfield - pathetic fallacy, mystery, adjective
  • Title of chapter 1
    Story of the Door