A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

Throughout the novel, A fistful of Dust, Tony symbolises and personifies heritage and old tralatitious values. Brenda, his wife, paradoxically symbolises and personifies the usher out of heritage and tradition and break drop of deterrent example values of the focal ratio class at the time. And through and through the breakdown of Tony and Brendas relationship, Waugh shows how the last vestiges of these clean values and tradition were being mindlessly forgotten. This is particularly unmistakable in this section of the novel. This is graduation exercise evident on paginate 80 in Brendas discover to Tony. When dictating to Tony where she wishes her friends to stay, she not only shows disdain to Tony but also to the home base which he holds most salutary in his life, a kin which he made and keeps for her and bingle which represents his heritage ad tradition. When Brenda says speedwell can go anywhere-not Galahad she is explicitly telling Tony of her disdain for that ro om, impartation her belief that even though Veronica is evidently not that picky about where she be as she can go anywhere the Galahad room is entirely so awful in Brendas eyes that it is not rack up for her friend. This complete disregard for Tonys livelylihood, equal by Hetton, continues on knave 81 upon their arrival. It starts with Mrs Beaver addressing Brenda; My shortsighted Brenda, its an appalling room. Firstly her face My poor Brenda makes Brenda out to be the victim, as if Tony has d peerless her ill-treat with the house. When in fact she is having an office in London in a flat which Tony pays for her to live in. This immediately highlights Waughs concern with the moral decline of the women in this novel. They prolong the nerve to come into Tonys home, 1 they know he has employ his life to living in and keeping, and yet with total disregard are telling Brenda of how dire they think it is, right in front of Tony. Waugh reminds us f this as Tony replies to thi s statement by saying Its not one we use a wide deal. This shows ho...