Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

The Sea

(2005)

John Banville

(December 8, 1945 – present)

Notes

24  Orpheus: the great musician and poet of Greek mythology who went down to Hades in search of his wife.

• Orpheus

• Orpheus

26  Chloe

• Etymology

• Demeter Chloe

• Daphnis and Chloe (see also A Synopsis of Longus' Daphnis and Chloe)

40  Pushkin: 

40  Bonnard: the French modernist painter Pierre Bonnard (see also Pierre Bonnard)

45  Tiepolo: eighteenth-century Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

49  Tiberius: Roman emperor who retired to Capri (see Tiberius on Capri)

Review Sheet

Characters

Avril – (55); 

Christy Duignan – dairyman; 

Carlo Grace – father of Chloe and Myles

Chloe Grace – Max first sees Chloe (26)

Constance Grace, Connie – mother of Chloe and Myles; wife of Carlo (29)

Myles Grace – Chloe's twin brother; (27)

Anna Morden – Max's wife

Claire Morden – Max's daughter (43); "twenty-something" (43); 

Max Morden – the narrator

Rose Vavasour, Rose, poor Rosie, Miss V., Miss Vavasour – (29); 

Places 

Ballyless

Cedars (4) – the Graces' summer home; Max's current lodging

Ballymore – where Max's father works (35)

Reference

Reference

Banville, John.  The Sea.  London: Picador, 2005.

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