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A fictional estate near Arwacas where Mr Biswas oversees estate workers for Seth and builds his first house.
Green Vale Quotes in A House for Mr Biswas
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Part 1, Chapter 5
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There was no need to ask where Jagdat was going. He was going to his family. He too, then, lived a divided life.
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The darkness filled his head. All his life had been good until now. And he had never known. He had spoiled it all by worry and fear. About a rotting house, the threats of illiterate labourers.
Now he would never more be able to go among people.
He surrendered to the darkness.
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Part 2, Chapter 2
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Mr Biswas had never thought of Tulsi property as belonging to any particular person. Everything, the land at Green Vale, the shop at The Chase, belonged simply to the House. But the lorries were Seth’s.
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Part 2, Chapter 3
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He had found a site such as he always wanted, isolated, unused, and full of possibilities. It was some way from the estate house, on a low hill buried in bush and well back from the road. The house was begun and, unblessed, completed in less than a month.
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Green Vale Term Timeline in A House for Mr Biswas
The timeline below shows where the term Green Vale appears in A House for Mr Biswas. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1, Chapter 5: Green Vale
Mr Biswas never forgot the huge trees in Green Vale , which hid the estate from the surrounding plains. In the estate’s barracks, twelve families...
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...house and spent most of her time at Hanuman House, which was very close to Green Vale . Mr Biswas began cooking for himself and taking walks, but often he just lay...
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In Green Vale , there were no Christmas celebrations whatsoever, besides eating and drinking and the unfortunate eventual...
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Mr Biswas began to cycle toward Green Vale , with Savi balanced on the crossbar, until “a Negro policeman” stopped them on the...
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Shama asked how Savi acted during her week at Green Vale and was delighted to hear that she threw away the food from the old woman....
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When he returned to Green Vale , Mr Biswas encountered Mr Maclean, who promised that the iron would be easy to...
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...past alike by merely looking at them. Afraid of deceiving his children, he returned to Green Vale .
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...throughout the night. In the first, black threads chased him from the Tulsi Store to Green Vale —the same threads of asphalt that fell down from the house’s roof, and he could...
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Shama brought the children to Green Vale that Christmas; Mr Biswas dreaded their arrival, hoped that an accident would stop them and...
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Part 2, Chapter 1: “Amazing Scenes”
Having returned to his old disposition from Green Vale , Mr Biswas realized that he did not fear people but felt “regret, envy, despair.”...
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Part 2, Chapter 3: The Shorthills Adventure
...In less than a month, he had exactly the house he wanted to build in Green Vale : two bedrooms, a drawingroom, and a verandah, mounted on cement pillars, with a corrugated...
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