BRIGHTON ROCK PART-I

 Charles Hale is in Brighton on assignment from the Messenger, a newspaper.

 50,000 people in Brighton on the day of Whitsun or Pentecost
 From 10 till 11 Queen’s road and Castle Square, from 11 till 12 the Aquarium and Palace Pier,
twelve till one the front between the Old Ship and West Pier, back for lunch between one and
two in any restaurant he chose round the Castle Square, and after that he had to make his way
all down the parade to the West Pier and then to the station by the Hove streets.
 He is distributing Kolley Kibber cards around the seaside town, trying his best to be spotted by
a loyal Messenger reader who, once he or she successfully identifies Hale and recites the pre-
ordained speech, will win the newspaper’s grand prize. Those who find cards will be rewarded
with 10 schillings each.
 Grand prize – 10 guineas - ‘You are Mr Kolley Kibber. I claim the Daily Messenger prize.’
 Hale has a strict itinerary to follow but manages anyway to squeeze in several gin and tonics
while he works.
 Convinced he will be murdered soon, he aloofly observes a seemingly never-ending parade of
tourists, gathered in Brighton to celebrate the Whitsun holiday, or Pentecost.
 Ida Arnold is called as Lily
 She is in the late 30s or early 40s – thought of sucking babies when you look at her.
 Her lipstick told you that, the confidence of her big body.
 She sings – “One night – in an alley – Lord Rothschild said to me.”
 Hale is referred as Fred
 “the Boy” but who will later be identified as Pinkie Brown,
 A boy – about 17 – a shabby smart suit, cloth too thin for much wear, a face of starved
intensity, a kind of hideous and unnatural pride.
 The young man opts for a grapefruit squash.
 Hale has a double whiskey.
 The young man shoots hate-filled looks at both Lily and Hale.
 Hale offers 10 shilings and then grand prize – disgusted, boy drops his glass – says Hale will
pay for it.
 Hale realizes they are going to kill him.
 Hale watches Lily some more and, fixated on her large breasts, feels as if he were looking at
life itself.
 Hale used to sell newspapers at street corners, the reporter’s job at thirty bob a week on the
little local newspaper with a circulation of 10,000 the five years in Sheffield.
 His pride is his main consolation, but it also handicaps him when it comes to interacting with
people like Lily.
 Ida – “Where shall we go Sir Horace? To the Old Ship?” -Hale asks her for dinner
 Ida declines, saying she has a prior engagement at the Dirty Dog.
 Hale looked sick. Barman Bell offered a Ham sandwich as he said he was hungry.
 Her large breasts bring to his mind the comfort mothers give their children, but he is a grown
man and must fend for himself.
 A man stood by the kerb selling objects on a tray. Selling ‘Razor blades’ -Kite was killed with
and he will also be killed.
 Cubitt – A big man, red hair cut en brosse and freckles.
 Hale went back towards west pier to find a girl.
 Colleoni’s mob had killed Kite at a station St Pancras. They just meant to carve him up but
razor slipped.
 Charles Hale went in his seedy suit and his string tie and his striped shirt and his inkstains, ten
years older and desperate for a girl.
 Molly, The fat girl tells him she would be happy to join him for lunch, but she has a friend
with her and doesn’t want to leave her behind.
 Molly’s friend Delia
 Pinkie and Fred date Molly and Delia – idea of Molly, for his pride he almost went but then
breaks away.
 Lily was singing a Victorian Ballad- Hale found her.
 In her first date someone pinched her bag.- The bag had ten bob and Tom’s passionate letters.
 She had a snack out of that date
 Tom had married Ida. He wants to remarry but Ida doesn’t no thrill she says. her wish to
elevate herself through marriage to a rich man.
 Hale suggested Ida to bet on Black Boy on Saturday in 4 o’ clock. even though Black Boy is
running under 20 to one odds.
 Hale asks Ida go to Palace Pier, and in the cab Hale kisses her, spotting Cubitt’s car in the
rearview mirror. – the old 1925 Morris – flapping hood, bent fender and cracked and
discoloured windscreen.
 Hale tells Ida he is ill and going to die and then again reverts it.
 Ida goes to take a quick shower, When she emerges from the lavatory four minutes later, Hale
is gone.
 Ida buys a watch from street vendor – symbolizes impending doom. It’s half past 1
 Palace of Pleasure – Pinkie
 Pinkie wins shooting game – prize doll -symbolize Pinkie and his understanding of women–
time : ten to two.
 Dallow – stout muscular man with broken nose and expression of brutal simplicity.
 Dallow, Cubitt, Spicer killed Hale and they all met on tea room in a cafe.
 Spicer had to leave around cards that Hale was supposed to creating an alibi -he died after 2.
 Pinkie thinks Ida is a buer - prostitute
 Spicer laid one of the cards under the table cloth in The Snow’s. Pinkie went there to collect
that card on table with flowers
 Depressing song -great vox humana was played at Snow’s
 Pinkie didn’t find the card and smashes salt cellar.
 Rose – pale, thin, shabby waitress
 Rose informs that she has got the Kolley Kibber card under cloth but the man nothing looked
like photograph.
 Pinkie tells the waitress ‘You an’ me have things in common.’ she’s the kind of girl he likes -
Pinkie aspires to woo Rose not because he has any romantic interest in her but because he
thinks she might be useful to him. His suggestion “You’re sensitive, that’s what it is, like me.”
is both ironic and oddly prescient.
 The Snow’s don’t close till half past ten except on Sundays
 Next day at 11 in morning, Ida’s at local pub Henekey.
 A somber man dressed all in black, Clarence. – mourn his wife- ghost by Ida
 Ida realizes Charles Hale -Fred (this name was mentioned by Molly and Delia’s testimony)
has died – It said he died from the heat, his heart gave out. Coronary Thrombosis
 The man who found the body got 10 guineas.
 Hale’s only relative is his second cousin in Middlesborough.
 Harry – A man in plus-fours and a striped tie.
 New Kolley Kibber was already appointed – he is going to be at Bournemouth tomorrow.
 Mr Alfred Jefferson, a chief clerk, of Clapham -found Hale’s body.
  Ida believes in ghosts –

idea of ghosts.
 Ida believes Hale will like to tell him something as a ghost, seeking answers and justice.
 She puts the paper down and tells Clarence she is going to Hale’s funeral. Someone ought to
be there, she says, and she likes funerals.
 No cemetery, wax flowers, impoverished jam-pots of wilting wild flowers
 A man, stood up in a black Cassock saying ‘heaven’ - priest
 There was nobody there but someone who looked like a landlady, a servant who haf parked a
pram outside, two men impatiently whispering.
 ‘Already at one with the One’ the priest said The clergyman finishes up his talk by saying that
Hale has been reabsorbed into the universal spirit. Then he presses a button and the new arts
door opened the flames flapped and coffin slid smoothly down into the fiery sea.
 Ida squeezed out with difficulty a last tear into a handkerchief scented with Californian Poppy.
 She was prepared to cause any amount of unhappiness to anyone in order to defend the only
thing she believed in.
 Fred became a thin stream of grey smoke -gray ash on pink blossoms.
 Molly Pink- the fat girl was the private secretary, employed by Messrs Carter & Galloway
 ‘Do you use Forhams for the Gums’ – toothpaste advertisement – Ida’s mind as simple
 Ida disembarks at Charing Cross Station
 Ida recognises Joe(not imp)- a negro in seven dials
 Messrs Carter &Galloway -top of tall building on the outskirts of Gray Inn.
 Charlie Moyne – old gentleman, long moustache and a sidelong raffish look – wore a check
coat, yellow waistcoat and a grey bowler- Charlie is sure he has seen Ida before, maybe at
Epsom horse park.
 Charlie asked for 2 quids as he wanted to bet on horses -bloodshot eyes– Ida gave him 1 quid
 Ida finds Molly, A copy of Women and Beauty was propped open on her typewriter.
 Ida returned to the boarding house in Coram street,
 A card of Brighton Pier by Phil Corkery- She thought Phil corkery was too quiet – not what
she called a man.

 - important items in glass cabinet

 Old Crowe-white hair, grey face, short sighted pit-pony eyes. and Ida use Ouija board. It spells
“SUKILL” and later “FRESUICILEYE” – Fred Suicide Eye for an eye
 PHIL appears in next try and Ida blushed
 PART -II
 Pinkie and Spicer are in Palace Pier – near Sam’s – a bar
 Pinkie is carrying a bottle of Vitriol for scaring Rose- but later told Rose it was spirit
 Rose says that the photograph and the person who left the card are different
 Peggy Baron -got mixed up with a mob -Pinkie said. They spoilt her looks. She lost one eye.
They flashed vitriol on her face.
  Frank’s -three sixes – address of Pinkie
 They went to Sherry’s
 Rose -16 but says age 17 – law prevents girl below age 17 to go out
 Rose lived in Nelson Place-poor- 2 penny ice from Everest tricycle
 Rose ordered Vanilla ice
 Pinkie asks Rose if she’s a Catholic after seeing a Rosary. She is. They both agree that it is the
only faith that makes any sense, although Pinkie’s devotion is different from Rose’s. He believes in
Hell and damnation, in torments, whereas Rose believes in Heaven. Pinkie concedes that Heaven
might exist, but he isn’t sure.
 ‘Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.’
 Pinkie returns to Frank
 Pinkie says Spicer is ‘sour and milky’
 Tate and Brewer, haven’t been paying their protection subscriptions.
 Spicer told everyone that Pinkie is going to marry Rose – Cubitt teases him- Pinkie denied
referring Rose as ‘cheap polony’
 Pinkie grabs a razorblade from the bathroom and tapes it under one of his fingernails. Then he
slips a glove over that hand. Pinkie and Dallow go to Brewer’s to teach a lesson
 Brewer had a house near the tram lines on the Lewes road almost under the railway viaduct. –
Brewer’s wife is very ill hasn’t slept in 3 days.
 Brewer eventually admits that he could not afford to pay both Pinkie and Colleoni. Colleoni
would have killed him if he didn’t pay him.
 Colleoni is, apparently, stopping in the Cosmopolitan hotel and, according to Brewer,
“running the business in a big way.” Tate has also paid Colleoni.
 Brewer suggests Pinkie join Colleoni and enraged Pinkie sliced Brewer across the cheek.
They took 20 pounds from Brewer.
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 Spicer told them that Rose had called for Pinkie saying someone came to ask questions.
 Racecourse above Whitehawk Bottom, like monoliths of Stonehenge
 Pinkie Brown, wrote a letter addressed to ‘Mr. J. Tate’ and by ‘P. Brown, Secretary, the
Bookmakers’ Protection…’
 Colleoni sent a letter to Pinkie- inviting to meet with him at cosmopolitan.
 Colleoni was small with a neat round belly. He wore a grey double-breasted waistcoat, and his
eyes gleamed like raisins. His hair was thin and grey.
 In lobby, He had been expecting someone Kite’s age. There’s a wet spot-on Pinkie’s freshly
ironed jacket. Pinkie is embarrassed. Colleoni hopes to end the meeting, but Pinkie insists they talk.
Colleoni pats him con descendingly on the shoulder and leads him out of the lobby, past the
whispering “bitches” and people laughing in the American bar and a man snoozing over his tea.
 Pinkie and Colleoni take elevator to 15th floor- Colleoni’s room – cigar case -real gold
impressed Pinkie
 Kite would not have died had a journalist not crossed them.

 Pinkie said to Colleoni who tried to offer him a job, “I’ll be seeing you on the course”
 He tells Pinkie that Napoleon and Eugenie used to stay in this room. Eugene was a foreign
Polony. Colleoni tells Pinkie not to bother Brewer and Tate anymore.
  a police officer taps Pinkie on the shoulder. Pinkie experiences a moment of panic, wondering
if Rose might have squealed on him, but the cop says he’s wanted at the police station, inspector
wants to talk to him for slicing Brewer’s cheek.
 The inspector only wants to talk. He tells Pinkie that, since the horse races are to begin in a
week, he hopes Pinkie’s men and Colleoni’s can refrain from starting the kind of mob war that is
bound to end with innocent people getting hurt. He suggests that Pinkie get out of Brighton. He’s too
young to be running an operation on his own, and, the inspector adds, there’s no way he can hold his
own with Colleoni.
 Pinkie thinks he can outsmart both police and Italian, Colleoni just like in Hale’s murder.
 PART III
 Ida wakes up in Brighton boarding house, reminders of the previous drunken night at Sherry’s
with Phil Corkery all around her.
 She decides to go see Jim Tate, the only bookie she knows, to talk about putting some down
on Black Boy.
 Old Jim Tate – thick blue veins on left forehead the red money spider’s web across the
eyeballs. ‘Honest Jim’ – mistakes Ida last name as ‘Mrs. Turner’
 Odds were 20 to 1 but odds shortened (12 to 1) and Tate gave him 10 to 1
 Colleoni calls Tate – an indication of Mob war which inspector feared
 Tate writes “Black Dog” instead of “Black Boy.”
 Ida bets 20 pounds.
 Ida went to bar and had a glass of Douro port- asked barman who is Colleoni -the one taking
over from Kite
 Ida walks to Snow’s and gets a table for her and Phil Corkery at 1.
 She finds the tablecloths and daffodils elegant and she’s grateful that the restaurant puts her
and two other girls up in an apartment where they have two mirrors to share.
 Rose admits she’s only sixteen. She pretended to be seventeen to get the job.
 Ida asks about Kolley Kibber. Rose says she served him a Bass and a sausage roll and that
that was the extent of her interaction with him because Snow’s was busy that day.
 Ida tells Phil that it wasn’t Hale who left card at the restaurant.
 Ida and Phil go to police station. Cramped official room of inspector smelt of French polish
and fish glue.
 Inspector tells Hale most likely sent another man to Snow’s to leave the card and then that
man swore the waitress to secrecy.
 Ida sees report. Fred had in-growing toe-nails.

 -Drank too much

 Bruises – jostling of Whitsun Crowd
 ‘I don’t need your police I’ve got my friends’ Ida – She doesn’t believe in doctors
 
 Spicer is milky but says he will be alright once the races start


 Crab, a young man in mauve suit with shoulders like coat-hangers and a small waist –
Colleoni’s right hand man- He has had his Jewish characteristics erased. His nose is straightened and
scarred. His hair is red.
 Crab informs Spicer that Pinkie is at the police station. Spicer panics to Frank’s and he sees a
‘man who grassed to the bogies’ in his reflection.
 Ross calls, She says that Pinkie asked her to call if anyone ever came by asking questions, and
that a woman and a man did come by and now she needs to talk to him
 Spicer thinks of retiring and moving to Blue Anchor in Nottingham
 Seagull heads straight for his face. Spicer wonders what Rose knows and, stationing himself
near the women’s lavatory, keeps his eye out for the police. What he sees instead are tourists heading
to the aquarium and cheap stores selling candy, namely Brighton rock. A photographer takes a photo
of Spicer - JBM

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 Pinkie is furious at Snow’s She guides Pinkie out of the café, where he tells her he could
break her arm if he wanted to. Rose doesn’t understand what she’s done to offend him. Rose tells that
she heard Kolley Kibber guy’s voice
 Pinkie plans to scare her as she is very close to the truth. they get on a bus headed for a place
called Peacehaven.
 Pinkie hates Rose’s shabby straw hat.
 Women, he thinks, really only want one thing from a man and that’s sex. He remembers
watching his parents make love every Saturday and is filled with revulsion, thinking that Rose will
want him to do that to her, too.
 Pinkie is from Paradise Piece very close to Rose’s home Nelson Place
 Pinkie says religion isn’t really all that important to him. He doesn’t have to think about God
until he dies. Rose says the questioning woman obviously did not believe in anything. She was
completely carefree. Rose, though, prays, and when she does she hopes she won’t die suddenly. Pinkie
says he never prays, but in reality he prays all the time, mostly that he won’t have to go home to
Paradise Piece ever again.
 Rose becomes angry ‘You wanted to be quiet If I don’t suit you you can leave me alone. I
didn’t ask to come out’ He reaches out and puts his hand on her knee. It lays there like a dead fish. He
says he’s sorry for his behavior; he has business cares, that’s all, and he thinks that they suit each
other perfectly.
 His mouth missed hers and recoiled. He’d never yet kissed a girl. Mazawattee tea

 -kiosk
 Photographer tells Pinkie he needs “a slip,” presumably something the photographer gives to
the subject after he’s photographed. On the wall behind the photographer’s head are snapshots of
famous people, including the Prince of Wales and Lily Langtry.-Spicer was among the immortals
 Pinkie captures the bug and pulls its limbs off one by one, saying “she loves me, she loves me
not.” Pinkie told Spicer to take a holiday.
 He shows Pinkie a silver watch given to him by friends at the track. Its inscription thanks him
for being a pal for ten years. That was fifteen years ago, Spicer says. He is trustworthy and
knowledgeable. In fact, Spicer says, he’s been doing this since before Pinkie was born. Pinkie says he
would just like Spicer to take a break for a while, but not before the races start soon. He’ll need him
there.
 Spicer will go to Nottingham – “Blue Anchor” in Union Street- he will take partnership after
retirement
 Pinkie leaves and calls the Cosmopolitan on the boarding house telephone. – asks for Mr.
Colleoni – ‘I’ll wish him good luck and pat him on the back’-coded language tells to kill Spicer.
 ‘Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi…’ ‘dona novis pacem’
 PART -IV
 "It was a line day for the races. People poured into Brighton by the first train. It was
like Bank Holiday all over again except that these people didn’t spend their money;
they harboured it. They surged like some natural and irrational migration of insects up
and down the front."
 Ida came in her red sports car
 Cigar smoking Negro- "He called out to them again in their own tongue the words
hollow and unformed and childish like theirs and they eyed him uneasily and backed
farther away."
 Buses go through Kemp town. "It was as if the whole road moved upwards like an
Underground staircase in the dusty sunlight a creaking shouting jostling crowd of cars
moving with it."
 "The odds on Black Boy had shortened nothing could ever make life quite the same
after that rash bet of a fiver on Merry Monarch."
 Spicer bet on Memento Mori – 5 to 1
 "To marry - it was like ordure on the hands."
 "‘I didn’t want them here to-day’ the Boy said. ‘We’ve got something to do to-day the
mob are better out of.’"
  "Life was good walking outside the white sun-drenched wall past the loud-speaker
vans the man who believed in a second coming towards the finest of all sensations the
infliction of pain."
 "The silence the inaction after a race is run and before the results go up had a daunting
quality. The queues waited outside the totes. Everything on the course was suddenly
still waiting for a signal to begin again."
 "Death wasn’t an end; the censer swung and the priest raised the Host and the loud-
speaker intoned the winners: ‘Black Boy. Memento Mori. General Burgoyne.’"
 "Somewhere from farther down the enclosure he heard a laugh a female laugh mellow
and confident perhaps the polony who’d put a pony on Fred’s horse. He turned on
Spicer with secret venom cruelty straightening his body like lust.".
 Barker and Macphearson and George Bale –‘The Old Firm’ and Bob Tavell of Clapton

 Spicer won. They went to Samuel-Tate’s assistant to collect money

 Pinkie pats Spicer on the back and wishes him luck. Soon, a crowd of men descends upon
Spicer and Pinkie. Pinkie can’t believe it. He tells the men that Spicer’s the one they want, but they
continue to attack him, slashing his cheek and slicing his knuckles. One man kicks him hard in the
leg. Spicer calls out for him, aboot with heavy nails was lifted and he felt pain run like blood down his
own neck. Eventually, someone calls out that the cops have arrived, and Pinkie takes off running away
from the horse park and toward the downs, two of Colleoni’s stooges on his trail. He weeps as he
runs. He even prays, but he knows that salvation only comes to those who repent and he has no time
to do it. Pinkie hides in open garage It’s more like a potting shed, full of dirt, ragged dolls, a rocking
horse, an old lawnmower and some even older albums – Fight scene
 ‘Alexander’s Rag Time Band’ Pack up your Troubles’ ‘If you were the only girl’ -ancient
records
 A luxurious car drifts by and Pinkie thinks he sees Mr. Colleoni inside, smiling at an old lady
in a purple dress. Pinkie enters Snow from back gate and in Wine cellar
 Tells Rose, Spicer is dead.
 pulls Rose in for a kiss. He bungles it again, and she says she supposes he hasn’t had many
girls. She admits that he’s her first and she’s glad. This infuriates Pinkie. He’d hoped at least to steal
someone else’s prize.
 She committed a mortal sin when she was 12. The brash woman can talk all she wants about
right and wrong, Rose says, but she knows nothing about it. She says she’d rather burn with Pinkie
than be like that ignorant woman.- Rose’s boss asks Pinkie to leave.
 Pinkie tells Cubitt that Spicer is dead and that it was Colleoni’s men who killed him.
 Pinkie asks for Mr Prewitt he wishes to marry Rose to silence her.
 Mr Prewitt – carried a brown leather portfolio and wore striped trousers which seemed a little
too new.
 Mr. Prewitt will be married for 25 years next year
 Prewitt tells him he might be able to produce a guardian if it comes to that, and that anything
can be managed—just leave it to him. Pinkie wants to tear the plaster from Spicer’s cheek. He stands
silently watching Spicer pack. Spicer’s guilt is replaced with a knowledge of what really happened on
the racecourse: Pinkie tried to have him killed.
 Spicer is alive. ‘dona nobis pacem’-‘grant us peace’
 Ida has 200 pounds now. – She tries to protect the innocent Rose. Ida reaches in the door,
moves the chair, and walks in. Rose is up against the far wall like a frightened animal. She confesses
to Rose that she has never had a child of her own and she has taken to Rose, feels real affection for
her.
 Rose might be young, but she has seen horrible things. Ida is right about one thing, though:
she’s too young to put all of it in perspective.
  Spicer’s dead- spread eagle like Prometheus. Pinkie says it was the faulty staircase, combined
with Spicer’s heavy suitcase.
 Pinkie tells Prewitt that, as his lawyer, he’ll just have to say that it was an accident. Prewitt
goes to Pinkie’s room with a headache. Cubitt has Spicer’s suitcase. He asks Pinkie where Spicer was
headed. Pinkie tells him the Blue Anchor in Nottingham. He supposes they should call. The Blue
Anchor people might want to send flowers.
 Prewit said, ‘You’d better lift that body and put the wood under it.’
 Pinkie bribed 1 crown to waitress -overhears Ida telling Rose to come clean. Rose is defiant.
He realizes that he and Rose are, indeed, made for each other. She is good, he is damned. He needs
her. Rose tells Pinkie she’d do anything for him. He replies that it’s not what you do but what you
think.
 Pinkie asks Rose to marry him. Pinkie leans down to kiss her. She smells sweetly of human
skin. He’s slightly revolted. He wishes she smelled like a chemical compound.
 He manages to smile at her, but he can’t help but feel a small stab of shame.
 A band of blind musicians marches up the pier, and Pinkie walks in front of their leader,
blocking him. The band comes to a halt for a moment. Then Pinkie lets them go by. He’s not sure why
he did such a thing.
 After inquest Pinkie thinks the murder of Hale, a dirty little journalist who got mixed up with
Colleoni and got Kite killed, might have been a mistake
 Dallow suggests Pinkie join him and Cubitt at the Queen of Hearts
 Kite’s territory – populous foreshore, few 1000 acres of houses, a narrow peninsula of
electrified track running to London, 2 or 3 railway stations. Kite died in waiting room at St. Pancras.
Pinkie had inherited his mannerisms- bitten thumb nail. And soft drinks.
 Sylvie – Spicer’s girl – hair fair as silver, wide vacuous brow, trim little buttocks
 Pinkie drank alcohol for 1st time
 They go to do sex in Car – Lancia. Pinkie suddenly made
conqueror of the world, is nauseated by the idea of making love and
he tells her he’ll run and get Cubitt for her.

 Pinkie slips near the pool

 Rose at Frank’s with newspaper Spicer’s dead news. She’s
having nightmares one of Pinkie dying. They should get married and
get out of Brighton
 Rose is fired for being rude to Ida. – Pinkie doesn’t want to marry.
 Rose asks Pinkie if she should take the newspaper to the police, and Pinkie is shocked by her
shrewdness. He supposes he will have to marry her after all. He suggests that she get her father to
write a letter on their behalf, giving them permission to marry, but she says her father can’t write.
Pinkie assures her there are ways around things. He’ll talk to Prewitt.
 Pinkie goes to Paradise piece, his childhood home has been demolished.

 - Pinkie in need of forgiveness.

 Pinkie goes to Rose Wilson’s house.
 Pinkie offers him ten shillings, then twelve, then fifteen. Mr. Wilson is offended and says he
won’t let Rose go for so little. Mr. Wilson tells Pinkie to make it fifteen guineas and he’ll think about
it. They agree at Guineas.
  Ida and Phil are at the Cosmopolitan in a café called the Pompadour Boudoir. Ida is eating an
éclair, She knows right and wrong. Mr. Colleoni appears in the café for a moment, ordering fruit for
his wife. For the next hour let the police have him.
 Phil goes to get their bags. Ida heads up to her room and undresses, waiting for Phil like a
large, blossoming surprise. She nearly forgets Hale in her anticipation of the day’s delight.
 Judy – Frank’s wife- titian hair, brown at roots
 Betrothal of Pinkie’s marriage

 - gifts by Dallow and Cubitt

 how classy and intelligent she is, how he’s marrying for her sake but laying her for his.
Dallow says he remembers seeing Rose on the pier and that she wasn’t all that great. Pinkie grows
angry and defends Rose. It’s almost as if he loves her.
 Pinkie tells Cubitt he’ll fix him the same way he fixed Spicer.
 Ida is awake in her room at the Cosmopolitan, thinking about how sex, natural though it may
be—and harmless and fun, too—almost always leaves a woman disappointed.
 Ida couldn’t remember much about Hale.


 Cubitt goes to join Colleoni. He remembers Spicer snd his mom
 Cubitt puts a penny in fortune telling machine

 Cubitt’s first name is John. Love letter – a penny machine.

 He thinks that such eloquence is the result of falling for a real woman and not a buer. Buers
make you want to carve their faces up, but real women inspire such poetry.
 Crab meets Cubitt. Ordered dry sherry and scotch and splash. Cubitt paid. Crab promises to
put in a good word for Cubitt for old time’s sake and leaves. Crab refers to ‘Ida’ as fine. Crab has got
a date at Hippodrome so he leaves.
 Cubitt feels an instant connection. Ida is not high class. He can tell. She’s of his rank. He’s
anxious to talk to someone and she seems the perfect woman for his confidences.
 Cubitt drunkenly blurts out that he’s never liked killing; carving is okay but killing is
different. He mentions Kite and tells Ida how that was all an accident; a razor slipped. Then he
mentions that Pinkie’s getting married, and Ida gets angry.
 She calls Rose a little fool. Cubitt is anxious to get out. He suddenly needs air. The room is
too hot. Ida tries her best to detain him. Cubitt starts to say that the memory of Brighton rock haunts
him, but he cuts himself off
 Ida goes to fetch Phil as witness but Cubitt is gone
 She knows now that Pinkie and his gang killed Hale and that Brighton rock, the candy, is
somehow involved.
 Wedding day, Rose is late
 ‘I watched ‘em every Saturday night, didn’t I? Bouncing and ploughing.
 He tells Dallow the story of a girl who went to his school when he was a boy. The girl’s name
was Annie Collins and she killed herself when she was fifteen by putting her head on the railway
track.
 ‘Credo in unum Satanum’
  She was pregnant at the time with her second child. She’d had her first when she was twelve.
Pinkie tells Dallow the father could have been any one of twelve different boys.
 Prewitt managed the whole affair by adding two years to Pinkie’s age.


 Rose went to church to confess but came back without confessing because ‘We’re going to do
a mortal sin.
 Someone has dropped a rose on the floor. They step over it. Everyone takes a seat in an
anteroom
 Mr. Prewitt leads Rose and Pinkie into a small green room where there are three chairs lined
up against the wall.
 Pinkie tells registrar angrily that they don’t have rings—this isn’t a church service. Sign the
marriage certificate


 Pinkie gave a party to his companions ‘We’ve got to celebrate’ -his mind remembered Car
and Sylvie
 For honeymoon, He offers to take her to the Cosmopolitan for the night. She can’t believe it.
He asks where she’s left her bag, but she explains that she has no things, really. Only what she’s
wearing. Her parents didn’t give her any money.

 Clerk said no rooms are vacant.

 They decide to head to the pier for the time being.
 Rose points to a girl in the crowd that’s staring at Pinkie. It’s Molly Pink, the fat girl Pinkie
can tell they’re talking about him.
 Gramophone Record – six pence. Rose asks for this souvenir. She says that if he ever goes
away for a while, she can listen to him talk and she likes that idea.
 Pinkie records - “Goddamn, you little bitch, why can’t you go back home forever and let me
be?”
 Rose suggests they move on to the covered walkway under the pier, the sight of Hale’s
murder. Long tunnel under the parade was the noisiest, lowest, cheapest section.


 Rose wants a stick of Brighton Rock. Pinkie agrees to buy it for her, thinking that he now has
her the way Christians have God in the Eucharist: by the guts.
 The cashier says some clumsy men came in and broke a bunch. Pinkie orders two sticks of
candy and leaves, impressed with his own cleverness. They eat the candy. Pinkie’s men were the ones
who broke the candy.
 Pinkie is filled with anxiety at the prospect of the marriage bed. He suggests a movie, but the
film they go to see is a romance and his anxieties swirl anew.
 furiously, to Rose, ‘Like cats.’ It was the commonest game under the sun - why be scared at
what the dogs did in the streets?
 A clock by the screen shows the time. It’s late. He knows he can’t put it off much longer. A
sentimental song accompanies the actor’s lovemaking on screen and Pinkie weeps, envisioning
a life free of hate and envy and fear that he knows will never be his.
 They went to Frank’s.
 Judy left a note telling Pinkie they were out celebrating his wedding.
 He says she won’t touch a thing. It’s his cave, he thinks, and she’s an intruder.
 The bell rings in the hall, but instead of going to answer it Pinkie grabs Rose and begins to
make violent love to her. He wants to get it over with.
 Pinkie is surprised to feel a tiny bit of tenderness for Rose during the act. He’d exposed
himself to another person and she hadn’t laughed. He supposed he was going to Hell, but it
was good to have that decided as well. He feels strong, vital, a man finally.
 Cubitt is drunk. Cubitt said, “We are kind of brothers.” Cubitt begins to cry. He asks Pinkie to
loan him some money; he’s broke. When Pinkie refuses, his sadness turns to anger.
 Rose was afraid of cops coming because of “Kolley Kibber”.
 Pinkie’s dream - At first, he’s in a schoolyard and he’s the new kid. He’s sick with fear that
he’ll be mocked and rejected, but then Kite appears and, for the moment, he is not alone. Kite
gives him a razor and Pinkie knows what he must do. The dream changes then, though, and
he’s on a pier, tipping into the sea. He scrambles
frantically, sure that he’ll drown, but really he’s just
in his bed in Paradise Piece and he’s trying to sleep
while his parents make love in the other room. He
feels dead while they do it. It’s as if he doesn’t exist
to them. Then he wakes. The clock strikes three.
Relieved to be alone in his room at Frank’s, he goes
for a glass of water. Rose calls to him from the bed
and he remembers.
 Pinkie thinks only death can set him fre

 In his pockets rose kept a note -

 He kept it as it may be useful some day
 Pinkie while returning saw a old woman in gutter. Her face rotting, teeth discoloured. Face of
damnation.

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 PART 7
 Rose found 3 pound notes wrapped around 2 half-crowns under the lid of soap box.


 She kept the gramophone record in cupboard for safety
 Rose found a paper, “Lock your door. Have a good time”
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 Pinkie drinks milk out of bottle. Tins of sardines, herrings for breakfast.
 Stove has not been lit since March.

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 Dallow calls Frank’s as “Liberty Hall”
 A strip of flypaper dangles by the sink; an old mousetrap sits completely useless in one corner.
 Dallow and Judy passionate embrace-California poppies scent
 Judy tells Frank is great at cleaning grease
 Dallow says they need to have a serious talk with Pinkie about his behavior toward Cubitt.
He’s worried it will backfire

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 Rose feels camaraderie in mortal sin
 At Snow’s, the blinds are just going up. Maisie, the only waitress Rose likes, is cleaning tables.
Doris, the sneering senior waitress, is drifting around lazily.
 she tells Maisie that she’s married and Maisie, amazed, asks her how it is. Rose tells her it’s
lovely. She’s happy and she doesn’t have to do anything all day. Maisie is clearly envious, so
Rose tells her it isn’t “all roses.”
 Rose asked what has she done to deserve to be so happy? She’d committed a sin
 Ida came disguised as Rose’s mother.
 Rose asks if she can play a record in the gramophone in the shop and buys “News of the
World” newspaper for her mother.
 She tells Ida to leave her and Pinkie alone.
 Ida smiles at Rose. She tells Rose what happened to Hale; she says Pinkie and his men took
him down into one of the pier shops and strangled him (brighton rock candy). Or they would
have, had his heart not given out first.
 Pinkie married her “because they can’t make a wife give evidence” Ida said
 Ida doesn’t believe people can change.


 Ida says, and in the real world there’s such a thing as right and wrong. But Rose cares about
good and evil—and to her, Pinkie is good.
 Ida tells Rose she had better take precautions so that she doesn’t end up giving birth to the
child of a murderer. After Ida leaves, Rose is filled with a sense of exultation that she could
have Pinkie’s child someday, and that that child could have more children and that she could
have the pleasure of making an army of allies for Pinkie.

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 News of the World headline- ‘Assault on Schoolgirl in Epping Forest’
 Ida dropped an artificial violet from a spray – smelt of California Poppy
 Pinkie dropped the artificial violet
 Pinkie now plans to kill Rose or rather Rose will kill herself.


 Pinkie says he’s not worried; as long as Ida doesn’t find out about Spicer, he’s fine. Rose
recoils the slightest bit at this, saying she thought Pinkie was guiltless in Spicer’s death.
 Rose didn’t say at first as she didn’t want him to worry.



 Pinkie thought Ida’s next target will be Prewitt.
 Mr. Prewitt’s house – a street parallel to the railway, beyond the terminus. Shaken by shunting
engines.
 Prewitt first name is Tilly


 There’s a scowling woman with a bitter face staring out at Pinkie from a basement window. He
found out recently that the woman is Prewitt’s wife.
 Prewitt is suffering from indigestion.
 Prewitt also had a bank ‘The Bakely Trust’ earlier that is gone.
 Prewitt feels he is ruined, his only client Pinkie will soon be ruined, too, run out of business by
Colleoni, who has his own, much more high-powered attorney.
 Prewitt is drunk.
 To stop neighbour’s music he bangs the paperweight on the wall twice.
 Prewitt compared Neighbour to Polonius in Hamlet
 He’d felt passion for his wife at one time. That was why he married her. Now, he calls her “the
mole” and “that hag” and claims that she’s ruined him.
 He quotes Dr. Faustus, saying, “Why, this is Hell, nor are we out of it.”

 He offers Prewitt some money to take a holiday, maybe to Boulogne. Prewitt confesses that
sometimes he considers exposing himself in a park. Mostly, though, he just watches the young
typists walk by.


 Once outside, Pinkie glances up at Prewitt who is standing at his window, staring out blankly.
There are no typists to see on a Sunday.
 Prewitt went to Lancaster college
 He drinks on Sundays
 Back at Frank Rose has tidied the room
 He feels nostalgia of murder(kill Rose)
 a baby starts wailing. Rose wishes someone would tend to it. Pinkie doesn’t understand why
she cares. It’s not hers. Rose says no, but it might be, and if she had a child, she wouldn’t leave
it alone all afternoon. The baby stops crying, and it dawns on Pinkie that Rose wants a child.
 Rose wants a child and Pinkie is disgusted by the thought
 Johnnie -> took Prewitt for holiday
 Johnnie phoned Dallow saying no one has been to see Prewitt.

 - suicide pact
 what he would do if Judy became pregnant. Dallow says that would be her funeral.
 Dallow telling Pinkie that Prewitt is probably on his way out of town by now and so they can
breathe easy. He tells Pinkie that Cubitt went to make sure that Prewitt got on the boat as
planned.


 He asks to see a letter Pinkie received from Collieoni. It’s unopened. Dallow reads it. Colleoni
is offering to give Pinkie 300 pounds to not hurt his men and clear out.
 it’s Cubitt saying that Prewitt is safely on a boat out of town. Dallow congratulates Pinkie on
being so clever and thinking of everything.
 Ida muses about how they’ve been unlucky with witnesses—including Rose, Spicer, Prewitt,
and Cubitt. The latter took a train out of town that morning.
 Phil counters that she’s only in it for the fun. She never really cared about Hale, Phil says.
 Phil also suggests, shyly, that the two of them have committed a sin by sleeping together out of
wedlock. Ida dismisses that idea out of hand, saying it’s just human nature to want to couple
and it’s fine.


 Pinkie and Rose are with Judy and Dallow at the same café where the men convened the
afternoon Hale was killed.

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 Ida said Mr. prewitt is at the police station – arrested on the quay.


 Frank is blind

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 Rose sees Dallow and Ida coming toward her. They’re accompanied by a confused looking
policeman. Someone asks her for the gun. She tells them that she threw it away. Pinkie begins
yelling at Dallow, calling him a squealer and wondering aloud if he’s going to have to kill
everyone in sight to put an end to this. Dallow tells him it’s no use; the police have Prewitt.
Pinkie asks Rose for the gun. She tells him it’s gone. Pinkie pulls something from his pocket.
There’s the sound of breaking glass and then of Pinkie screaming in agony. Steam rises from
his face and then he’s gone, running off the cliff before anyone can stop him.

 Ida returns home to her apartment and calls for Old Crowe, hoping that the two of them can
take another turn at the Ouija board. There are no postcards from Phil Corkery waiting for her.
She supposes she won’t get one of those again, but there is a letter from Tom. Old Crowe joins
 her at the board. Ida thinks about how it saved Rose’s life. What she wants to ask it this time is
more personal. She wants to know if maybe she should finally go back to Tom

 that God’s mercy is abundant and endless and strange and that Rose should hope and pray and
realize that, no matter what her sins, she is never cut off from that mercy. He tells her that
Pinkie loved her and that shows that there was some good in him. She hesitantly asks the priest
about what might happen if she is carrying Pinkie’s child, and the priest tells her to raise her
child to be a saint to make up for the sins of his father.

 “If he loves you…” She is sure she will find proof of that love on the record. The nightmare is
over, she thinks, and her troubles are behind her. Little does she know that, when she listens to
the record, the horror will begin all over again.