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Veronica’s brother and a Cambridge student like Adrian, Jack is casual and sardonic, treating Tony with rather unconcerned bemusement during the weekend Tony spends at the family’s home. Tony feels insecure around Jack, due in part to his Cambridge education and in part to his privileged background. During that weekend, and decades later when he attempts to get back in touch with Jack, Tony continues to feel slighted by him, as though Jack is treating him with barely disguised contempt. This feeling is depicted as possibly based in some truth, though also stemming from intense insecurity on Tony’s part. In fact, in many ways Jack and Tony are similar in their “unseriousness,” which is something that Adrian finds frustrating about both of them.
Jack Ford Quotes in The Sense of an Ending
The The Sense of an Ending quotes below are all either spoken by Jack Ford or refer to Jack Ford . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious. I really hate it.”
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Why did I imagine Brother Jack had seen me coming and was having a bit of fun? Perhaps because in this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age. The Fords had been posher than the Websters back then, and they were jolly well going to stay that way. Or was this mere paranoia on my part?
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It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.
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Jack Ford Quotes in The Sense of an Ending
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“I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious. I really hate it.”
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Why did I imagine Brother Jack had seen me coming and was having a bit of fun? Perhaps because in this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age. The Fords had been posher than the Websters back then, and they were jolly well going to stay that way. Or was this mere paranoia on my part?
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It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.
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