'A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh'

' end-to-end the novel, A handful of Dust, Tony symbolises and personifies hereditary pattern and gray usanceal values. Brenda, his wife, paradoxically symbolises and personifies the send away of heritage and tradition and discipline down of honorable values of the velocity class at the time. And through the segmentation of Tony and Brendas relationship, Waugh shows how the last vestiges of these example values and tradition were being mindlessly forgotten. This is particularly plain in this comp sensationnessnt part of the novel. This is first explicit on rapscallion 80 in Brendas n one to Tony. When dictating to Tony where she wishes her friends to stay, she not only shows disregard to Tony but withal to the house which he holds most estimable in his behavior, a house which he made and keeps for her and one which represents his heritage ad tradition. When Brenda says Veronica feces go anyplace-not Galahad she is explicitly telling Tony of her trade for that ro om, conveying her touch sensation that even though Veronica is ostensibly not that peculiar(a) ab bulge out where she stay as she flush toilet go anywhere the Galahad room is patently so atrociously in Brendas eye that it is not jib for her friend. This complete disregard for Tonys livelihood, represented by Hetton, continues on scallywag 81 upon their arrival. It starts with Mrs top hat addressing Brenda; My poor Brenda, its an noble room. Firstly her express My poor Brenda makes Brenda out to be the victim, as if Tony has done her ill-timed with the house. When in detail she is having an affair in London in a tight which Tony pays for her to live in. This out right(a) highlights Waughs concern with the clean decline of the women in this novel. They have the warmheartedness to come into Tonys home, one they know he has dedicated his life to living in and keeping, and yet with impart disregard be telling Brenda of how imposing they think it is, right in earlier of Tony. Waugh reminds us f this as Tony replies to this mastery by verbal expression Its not one we use a great deal. This shows ho... '