Homework Help: english

Posted by marla on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 6:50pm.

I don't understand this quote from Great Expectations. Can you help me paraphase it?
So unchanging was the dull old house,the yellow lights in the darkened room the faded spectre in the chair by the dressing table glass, that I felt as if the stopping of the clocks had stopped time in that mysterious place , and while I had everything else outside, it grew older, it stood still...It bewildered me, and under its influence I continued at heart to hate my trade and to be ashamed of home.

english - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 6:55pm
Take it one phrase at a time, making sure you understand all of the words within that phrase.

So unchanging was the dull old house,

the yellow lights in the darkened room

the faded spectre in the chair by the dressing table glass,

that I felt as if the stopping of the clocks had stopped time in that mysterious place ,

and while I had everything else outside, it grew older, it stood still...

It bewildered me,

and under its influence I continued at heart to hate my trade and to be ashamed of home.
- english - marla, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 7:09pm
  Everything is the same nothing has changed and still he continues to hate his trade and home.
  - english - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 7:17pm
    Right! :-)

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