Misery page 60-61

C - While the hunchbacked passenger is talking to Iona, Iona describes how he sounds:
Q - “cracked voice”
E - The writer’s use of repetition and a metaphor about the hunchbacked man show he sounds just as he looks

Line 12-13 on page 60 – “long altercation, ill-temper, and abuse” – negativity
Line 17 on page 60 – “What a cap you’ve got, my friend!” – sarcasm and abuse.
Last line on page 60 – “Me-er-ry gentlemen!”- Attempt at conversation.
Line 2 top of page 61 – “you old plague” – response to Iona’s attempt at conversation, being mocked by the hunchback like.
Line 6 on page 61 – “jolting person and quivering voice” – contrast of the “jolting person” and the “quivering voice”.
Line 9 on page 61 – “little by little to be less heavy on his heart.”
Throughout page 61 Iona is grateful for any conversation even if it is abuse addressed towards him. “ the feeling of loneliness begins little by little to be less heavy on his heart”
Line 11 on page 61 – “elaborately whimsical string of epithets” the hunchback is making himself feel better by belittling Iona.
Chekhov uses ellipsis to dhow how Iona is stuttering – “This week …er …my…er…son died!”
The hunchback then shown no sympathy for Iona – “We shall all die …” – This shows that the hunchback is telling Iona that death is inevitable