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Rosemary Daye only occurs in the eleventh chapter
and has nothing in common with the plot of "Eureka
Street". The chapter's aim is to show the reader how many
personal stories there are behind such bombings that we just forget
when we hear about it on the radio. Rosemary is 26
years old. She has recently stopped smoking and as she has just
fallen in love, her happiness seems "intuitive, conspiratorial"
(p. 219). In the course of the chapter she thinks about her new
boy-friend Sean and looks at herself in the shop's windows: "She
had a map of the city whose milestones where places where she might
look at herself. Dark windows, matt displays, even parked cars."
Yet, "it wasn't vanity, it was concern".
This
obsession is due to her hair. She has spent lots of money for
hair-styling which turned her into a hair-specialist. She can
calculate how much a woman's hairstyle had cost. Now
she is happily walking through the city and smiling to people
she doesn't even know: "It was as though Sean had released or
revealed a world that was full of good desire, generous desire." Rosemary
thinks about a phone call from him and she thinks " She would
never be cold again. She felt as though every living, breathing inch
of her was goaded into some kind of heat, some slow, productive burn." After
a while she decides to have a sandwich in a small shop where she
always goes before she starts working again. She smiles to a handsome man once again who
holds the door open for her. " She
turned to murmur some thanks and stop existing". A
bomb explodes in the small sandwich shop and tears Rosemary apart.
With this brutal and sudden sentence (see above), McLiam Wilson
stops Rosemary's life and all her feelings. Since she is not an
extraordinary woman with feelings and weaknesses that everybody
recognizes in somebody, it is very frightening for everybody because
this sudden brutal death is revealed to be something that could
happen to anybody. Annika, Reemt
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