![]() What you do blurs over what you did before. I still say I didn't go down there with the intention of seeing whether there was anywhere to have a secret guest. They show Clegg's disconnect from normal human patterns of emotion and disappointment, and foreshadow his disturbed mindset throughout the story. Only it didn't happen to me." These lines constitute a telling introduction to the novel. This quotation ends with a few statements about Clegg's mental life: "But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Throughout The Collector, he will come up against the realization that his financial prosperity is in conflict with his uneducated upbringing. As a boy, Clegg grew up well outside of the wealthy social scene of England, and now he believes, at least at first, that he can buy his way into the upper class. "I was rich, a good spec as a husband now," notes Clegg. ![]() This quote displays two of the main ideas of the novel, the first of which is the changing class landscape of England in the 1960s. But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. ![]() There were even times I thought I would forget her. ![]() All the time we were up in London spending and spending I was thinking I wasn't going to see her any more then that I was rich, a good spec as a husband now then again I knew it was ridiculous, people only married for love, especially girls like Miranda. ![]()
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