- Detailed observer (even the bees showing…)
- Relating to the description of the coastline he uses the personification “fury”
- Also with many sentimental feelings (heartbreaking beautiful…, whiff of Paradise)
- Keeping traditions, rituals (coming every Easter to the McAndrews)
- Married 25 years ago à loyal, trusty
- Romantically? Wants to spending his honeymoon there
- The stay in this hotel gives him pleasure, likes the lonely position of this place, although there are these dangerous cliffs no beaches
- He has a Daimler à rich?
- Old fashioned? Odd? Snobbish? à he stand by his values and accepts other opinions à is open for all
- Don’t like: bad manners – conservative? The modern world with it’s cocktail bars, taxi drivers with their egalitarianism
- Likes peace, quiet and decent reserves (=bescheidene Rücklagen, Reserven)
- Respect for dignity and personal privacy (although it’s hard in such commercial establishments)
- Sees himself as a dry stick
- Grants (gönnen) his wife, to do what ever she wants.
- He thinks to be dependent on those, whom he loves.
- For him, McAndrews is a place, which helps one to relax, unbend and find his soul again, like a healing process.
- Likes routines, he compares the re-establishing in the hotel with putting and old much worn jacket.
- At McAndrews, he has another diurnal rhythm
- Breakfast
- Then a walk as far as the village and back
- 1-2 hours in the library, Boswell (he never read him in Dublin!?)
- Lunch and an afternoon in a deck-chair (Liegestuhl). Looking to the sea, dozing, dreaming, idling
- Dinner
- Another strenuous walk
- Glass of port (Portwein)
- Gets early to bed with a good detective novel
- Likes watching the sea, the changing of the light, watching sea-gulls (Seemöwen)
- Although he knows, that all short-lived (vergänglich…), he feels peace.
- Has always been out of step with the world
- McAndrews= retreat or a haven, to escape from all those aggressive young man, and their “extraordinary self-confidence” and their “scarlet-nailed”-women and their endless easy chatter
- Accepts modern professions
- There always had been a gap between the lyrical “I” and most of his own generations
- It hurts him, to know that the time doesn’t match to him, respectively that the time goes on
- He cans laugh about the idiocy of the humans, so he feels part of the rest of the world
- To take leave of the McAndrews is very hard, every time he gets nervous
- Tries to detract by drinking a bottle of wine
- Spend some yeas in West Africa
- Loves the typical Irish twilight à loves the half-wilful melancholia athmosphere
àDinner like a ceremony, always the same seat, ritual
- Has many prejudices and is superficial (oberflächlich)
- At once associations, when he sees other humans.
- E.g. the American woman; tells, that he like the American TV-thrillers and the accent
- Likes traditional cooking and dislikes the food of the “modern world”
- Conservative attitude “ladies do not dine alone in public”
- Respects traditions
- E.g. The cooking style of Mrs. Byrne
- He observers exactly his fellow men, much knowledge of human nature
- He has manners, shows respect for privacy
- Curious
- Likes to philosophize and curving of his mind/thoughts.
- Uses some French expressions like “raison d’être” or “maître d’hôtel” à well educated
(André)
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