A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

throughout the novel, A Handful of Dust, Tony symbolises and personifies hereditary pattern and old usanceal set. Brenda, his wife, paradoxically symbolises and personifies the disregard of heritage and tradition and break down of example values of the upper score at the time. And through the partitioning of Tony and Brendas relationship, Waugh shows how the last vestiges of these moral values and tradition were being mindlessly forgotten. This is particularly seeming(a) in this section of the novel. This is first evident on page 80 in Brendas note to Tony. When dictating to Tony where she wishes her friends to stay, she not only shows disrespect to Tony only when also to the ho persona which he holds most dear in his life-time, a house which he made and keeps for her and one which represents his heritage ad tradition. When Brenda says veronica jackpot go anyplace-not Galahad she is explicitly copulation Tony of her disdain for that room, conveying her feeling that even though Veronica is evidently not that especial(a) about where she stays as she can go anywhere the Galahad room is simply so awful in Brendas eye that it is not fit for her friend. This sodding(a) disregard for Tonys livelihood, represented by Hetton, continues on page 81 upon their arrival. It starts with Mrs Beaver addressing Brenda; My woeful Brenda, its an dreadful room. Firstly her manifestation My poor Brenda makes Brenda out to be the victim, as if Tony has done her wrong with the house. When in fact she is having an affair in London in a flat which Tony pays for her to live in. This straightway highlights Waughs concern with the moral decline in quality of the women in this novel. They have the gist to come into Tonys home, one they have it off he has dedicated his life to living in and keeping, and only with total disregard be telling Brenda of how horrible they echo it is, right in bet of Tony. Waugh reminds us f this as Tony replies to this statement by sayi ng Its not one we use a great deal. This shows ho...