A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

passim the novel, A Handful of Dust, Tony symbolises and personifies heritage and old customs dutyal set. Brenda, his wife, paradoxically symbolises and personifies the disregard of heritage and tradition and break down of incorrupt values of the upper disunite at the time. And through the breakdown of Tony and Brendas relationship, Waugh shows how the last vestiges of these moral values and tradition were being mindlessly forgotten. This is particularly evident in this section of the novel. This is first evident on page 80 in Brendas none to Tony. When dictating to Tony where she wishes her friends to stay, she not only shows disrespect to Tony hardly also to the ho consumption which he holds most dear in his life history, a house which he made and keeps for her and one which represents his heritage ad tradition. When Brenda says speedwell passel go anywhere-not Galahad she is explicitly express Tony of her disdain for that room, conveying her persuasion that even t hough Veronica is evidently not that fastidious about where she stays as she can go anywhere the Galahad room is simply so awful in Brendas eyeball that it is not fit for her friend. This fill out disregard for Tonys livelihood, represented by Hetton, continues on page 81 upon their arrival. It starts with Mrs Beaver addressing Brenda; My unforesightful Brenda, its an appalling room. Firstly her locution My poor Brenda makes Brenda out to be the victim, as if Tony has done her wrong with the house. When in fact she is having an affair in London in a flat which Tony pays for her to live in. This presently highlights Waughs concern with the moral set of the women in this novel. They have the nervus to come into Tonys home, one they bed he has dedicated his life to living in and keeping, and that with total disregard be telling Brenda of how horrible they guess it is, right in drift of Tony. Waugh reminds us f this as Tony replies to this statement by saying Its not one we use a great deal. This shows ho...