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...must admit that I find it impossible to relate The Confidential Clerk to any of the myths. Eliot claims the Greek is there, however, and perhaps an under standing of the particular legend would delineate some of the aspects of The Confidential Clerk's characters I still find confusing. The theological framework is much clearer to me, and I shall review The Confidential Clerk in its context...
...Cocktail Party was an attempt to synthesize current mores and, more exactly, modern theories of psychology with the Medieval framework of faith, reason, and salvation, The Confidential Clerk tries to dramatize the paradox of free will with recent thinking on heredity and parental discipline. In the process of fitting together the old world, of philosophy with the age of data, Eliot usually manufactures his dramatic conflict largely in the mind of the spectator rather than in action of the characters. The Confidential Clerk in this respect, depends even more on the symbolic clash of ideas than did The Cocktail Party...
...given role we will be able to assume that persons. Finally, through conversation with Simpkins and his acceptance of them, they all begin to understand themselves. Self-realization does not insure happiness, however, unless you are Christ or pure in faith like the old clerk, Eggerson. As Sir Claude says, one must accept the terms life imposes upon you, even if it seems like make-believe, unless you have the strength of will to impose your own terms. Those who are weak, like Sir Claude, Lady Elizabeth, and Lucasta, may have their wished granted, but the facts will...
...father, Edward P. Bacigalupo, is the assistant clerk of Suffolk Superior Court, and is a former state representative. He described his son as a brilliant student...
...Secretary carried him proudly off down corridors to show to admirals. Then the hero's wife took the hero's child in her arms and went quietly back to Alexandria with the bit of metal which had been molded in testimony of the fine name of Drug Clerk Francis Hammond...