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Date Posted: 19:38:28 04/06/08 Sun
Author: Hwaet!
Subject: Jamie's Consciousness

I find it remarkable how Tyrone and Jamie are torn between wanting to scapegoat and wanting to absolve, wanting rivalry and wanting to defer. Responding to Jamie’s accusations of Hardy being a quack, Tyrone says, “You damned fool! No one was to blame” (40). Jamie then says that Tyrone was too cheap to pay for a real doctor, and Tyrone says, “That’s a lie!” Furiously. “So I’m to blame!” It is clear from countless other lines in the play that Tyrone, like everyone else, is looking to blame someone for the family crisis. Too bad for Tyrone that to blame Hardy is to blame himself. Hardy would be the perfect victim if Tyrone were not so closely associated with him.

Jamie, too, is torn between jealously of Edmund and deferring to Edmund. Three times Jamie is “Stung into sneering jealousy” and then “suddenly shamefaced,” or “Sneering jealousy again” and then “Ashamed again.” Then, “Grudgingly again: ‘Not that they’d ever get him anywhere on the big time.’ Hastily: ‘But he’s certainly made a damned good start’” (36). Jamie, more than other rivals we have studied, sees the moral dilemma of his rivalry, and fights against it rather than against his rival.

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