Word: highet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November Magazine of Art, Major Gilbert Highet, a former Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford, and on military leave from Columbia University, thinks he has found the groom. Using the tried-&-true detective method of eliminating suspects, he tracks his man all around the table...
...pint mugs. They are probably her brothers. Her father, nowhere to be seen, must be dead. The bride's mother, her face hidden, sits on her right. But the bridegroom's face could not be hidden: Bruegel wouldn't play a trick like that, argues Major Highet...
...look like her, so are probably her new in-laws. The desiccated character opposite them, yelling for more beer, has "the same peevish expression-vanity without dignity, sourness without purity." But, like his father, he also has store clothes and an avaricious look. That's the man, says Highet. He is "rich but ill-mannered. That is why the bride is sitting quietly with downcast eyes. Her smirk means, 'I'm glad I'm getting married. I don't much like my husband, but he is rich...
Concludes Major Highet: "It is rich enough to make ... a complete sociological novel. . . . Will she suffer, or will she be contented . . . because she has bettered herself, and because her children will wear good black clothes and have carved chairs instead of wearing peasant stuff and sitting on the floor...