The Uncommon Reader is generally about a Queen’s perspective towards the world changing. "When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changed dramatically. Abetted that her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines initially alarms the palace staff, and soon leads to surprising and very consequences for the country at large."
In pages 1-24 of the novella, at Windsor the Queen has begun reading. The first book she read was The Pursuit of Love by Compton-Burnett. The librarian that she met was named Norman Hutchings, who worked in the kitchens. The Queen becomes in love with reading just the first book the she decides to move Mr. Hutchings from his current position in the kitchens to become promoted, or brought upstairs working full time as the Queen's librarian.
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"Homosexual and jailbird, was he nevertheless as bad as he was painted?" (Bennett 3).
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Homosexuals weren't really considered a part of the society, they were more viewed as a corruption. when the Queen says "Homosexual and jailbird, was he nevertheless as bad as he was painted," she is degradiing homesuxuals, jailbirds, and the bad painting. The painting is being compared to the two.
painted? Not an actual painting, but "described."
ReplyDeleteVery nice formatting for this post. Keep up with the reading!