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The Moving Finger Notes

The document provides background on the writer, including that she was born into an aristocratic family and her husband died of depression. She then occupied herself by helping refugees. It discusses themes in her writing around rivalry, love, marriage, and the treatment of women. Specifically, it summarizes her short story about Mr. Grancy and his relationship with his deceased wife, Mrs. Grancy, and how another man, Claydon, views their dynamic. Claydon is cynical towards Grancy's grief and possession of a painting of Mrs. Grancy. The document also references methods used in the story and perspectives around death, aging, and grief.

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The Moving Finger Notes

The document provides background on the writer, including that she was born into an aristocratic family and her husband died of depression. She then occupied herself by helping refugees. It discusses themes in her writing around rivalry, love, marriage, and the treatment of women. Specifically, it summarizes her short story about Mr. Grancy and his relationship with his deceased wife, Mrs. Grancy, and how another man, Claydon, views their dynamic. Claydon is cynical towards Grancy's grief and possession of a painting of Mrs. Grancy. The document also references methods used in the story and perspectives around death, aging, and grief.

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ABOUT THE WRITER:

 Her husband died of acute depression and she moved and occupied herself with other things
such as helping refugees- can see this in Mr.Grancy
 She also had an affair- hint to affair with Claydon
 About the aristocrats- herself born in to such a family

CONCERNS:

Rivalry

Love

Marriage

Treatment of women

how important and needed women are for men, in this case for Mr. Grancy.

This was due to the fact that he wanted to feel accompanied and also to have a
similar age so as not to feel lonely and older than her. Moreover, here he
treated her like an object since he wanted to make her be part of the house by
having the painting.

Claydon was cynical with Ralph Grancy because he was in control of the
painting (he could modify it, by making her look older, younger, uglier or
whatever he wanted to) and mistakenly believed that by having the capacity of
altering it and having had an affair with her, he owned Mrs. Grancy’s love,
which in fact belonged to Ralph.

Death and Ageing:

METHODS:

 Title

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,


Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. - rubaiyat-omar-khayyam
The "moving finger" is being used as a symbol for Fate or for Time. The point is that
once the moment is past, it's gone. There's no way to recapture it, regardless of your
prayers or cleverness or anything else. Once the "moving finger writes," time
marches on and nothing will ever be able to change whatever happened during that
instant in time. The incident is over and done, recorded and unchangeable.

Here, it refers to Mrs. Grancy’s death.

Mr.Grancy and Mrs Grancy

Perspectives

Grief

Conflicts:

 Strangely enough, I saw that Claydon had missed his mark, maybe wanted
him dead but also wanted to be his friend

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