 Hello and welcome. Now if you are studying Washington Square as part of your upcoming exams I thought it'd be useful to create a quote bank of relevant quotes for each of the main characters now within this lesson I'll be looking at Dr. Sloper's character. Of course He is the primary I would say antagonist. Okay, so you've got our protagonist, which is Catherine Catherine is our protagonist and Our two principal antagonists or villains are of course dr. Sloper her father But of course Morris Townsend, too Okay, now remember that Dr. Sloper is an esteemed physician He's a doctor and especially a doctor in 1800s New York society was very well-placed and very wealthy And he functions a lot of times as the gatekeeper in Upper-class elite society and he constantly tries to cast Morris out of this elite society because he sees through his Mercenary intentions, but also he doesn't see him as a gentleman Okay, because he's not rich enough as he squandered his money, but also when we consider dr. Sloper's character He's often quite cruel to his daughter He actually enjoys being quite mean and very controlling of her and he punishes her lack of submission to his iron will Against the marriage or the engagement between her and Morris Townsend So she he's quite cruel to his daughter And he often punishes her and even spitefully disinherits her towards the end of the story when he's quite old He's quite ill and she doesn't give him a definitive promise that she will never marry Morris Townsend So he's a very very incredibly dislikeable character. Okay, I would say especially when I was reading this book I did not find that many redeeming qualities from him I just think he was he's an incredibly misogynistic character, but equally when you're writing about him I think it's really important to illustrate the fact that not only is he a gatekeeper of upper-class New York society in the 1800s But equally is quite cruel and spiteful towards his daughter whom he sees as a massive disappointment He also maybe perhaps dislikes her because she was the cause of his wife's death as well Okay, so the first quotation and also the language analysis you can do with each quotation in the structural analysis You can do is of course when we realize he actually had had a first love, which is Catherine's mother So the novel tells us he had married ellipsis for love Okay, and of course the alliteration and he had Illustrates that Dr. Sloper actually didn't have a heart that was made of stone There was once upon a time that actually he really loved somebody which was his wife Okay, however, we could see his cruel spiteful treatment of Catherine Perhaps as punishment for the role she played during the birth or during her birth in Causing his wife's premature death. Okay, because his wife died a week later However, we know that his wife was of course also very wealthy. So he married into elite society He himself is wealthy, but he also married a woman who is quite wealthy In fact, Catherine stands inherit his mother her mother's Inheritance, which is substantial and she can even live off that without even her dad's inheritance. Okay That being said the fact that Dr. Sloper married out of love is interesting because he had his choice to marry out of love But he doesn't let Catherine exercise the same choice that she wishes to do which is marry Morris Townsend out of love Okay, so he closely controls Catherine But actually he's a little bit hypocritical because he married a woman out of love The next quote relating to Dr. Sloper is when we learned that he never asked for explanations Which he could entertain himself with inventing and this is a declarative sentence remember the declarative sentence is a sentence that states a fact Feeling or mood now what this declarative sentence shows us is dr. Sloper is actually quite arrogant He's a very arrogant person. He thinks is very intelligent. He thinks is always right He never questions his own judgment. Okay, and of course to some extent he is right about or to a great extent He's right about Morris's character However, how he executes what he believes is what perhaps we as readers find quite reprehensible We see it as quite disgusting and terrible. Okay, so we can see that dr. Sloper is very arrogant And he feels like he's very intellectually superior Especially superior in contrast his daughter Catherine who he sees as very plain a little bit disappointing and of course Mrs. Penaman he sees her as also his intellectual inferior The third quotation which we can relate to dr. Sloper is when he makes his summary judgment of Morris Townsend's character He states I know him enough. I have my impression of him and of course here We've got repetition of the pronoun him here. We can see that dr. Sloper is the gatekeeper. He functions or acts as the gatekeeper of upper-class society He has judged Morris as not being part of the crop of upper-class men And hence he has decided to completely You know stonewall him. He's refused him any access into the Sloper household He also has totally and adamantly refused the engagement. He's totally disapproved of him. Okay So we can see here that class is incredibly important to dr. Sloper who Catherine Maris and his status in society is incredibly important to him the next quote which illustrates You know how he looks down on Morris Townsend is when he states that Morris has not the soul of a gentleman And again, this is a declarative sentence now here the reference to the fact that Morris Townsend doesn't have the soul There's something within him that isn't what he considers a gentleman again. What this is illustrating is how Status in class is incredibly important to dr. Sloper. Okay He makes a judgment of Morris also of course Here's that he doesn't have any money coming in and he refuses to have his daughter be associated with somebody who's not a gentleman i.e. A wealthy upper-class man who has his own inheritance that is bringing to the marriage the next quotation That illustrates just how cruel dr. Sloper is towards his daughter is when he states or when we learn No young man from his perspective ellipsis and no young man ellipsis will ever be in love with Catherine and of course here The notion that no young man will ever be is hyperbole of exaggeration now What this is illustrating is dr. Sloper thinks his daughter is actually very plain maybe even ugly And we can see here that one of the reasons why he totally objects to Morris Marrying Catherine and why he's so suspicious is because Morris is so handsome and Catherine is just so plain He really looks down on his daughter and he sees her and views her with disdain Okay, and this is illustrated especially through the side verbally the next quotation which obviously illustrates Morris or rather dr. Sloper knows and can clearly see through Morris Townsend's Mercenary golds writes Morris is trying to marry Catherine to make money out of her or to at least inherit her money Is when dr. Sloper says however much he may value your personal merits. He values your money more Okay, so he's telling Catherine, you know, yeah, he might value you as a person your personal merits But your money is more important to him. Okay, so however much he may value your personal merits He values your money more and the repetition of the word value, which is obviously tied to monetary interest money Illustrates that dr. Sloper can clearly see through Morris's tactics He can clearly see that Morris is actually quite scheming and conniving and he wants to Marry Catherine so that you can get both inheritances from dr. Sloper's the inheritance. He's gonna leave over Equally Catherine's own mother's inheritance. Okay, so or rather the inheritance You're gonna get from her mom the next quotation which obviously illustrates that dr. Sloper knows that his cruel and Rejection of their engagement and his treatment of Catherine He knows that he's quite cruel and he agrees that I am resigned to her thinking me a tyrant And tyrant of course is hyperbole over exaggeration again What this is illustrating is he knows is being really mean to Catherine He knows is being spiteful and he just says oh, I'm just resigned to her You know thinking that because I've refused Morris to marry her I'm a tyrant and again What we can see here is that dr. Sloper actually takes a lot of glee in causing painters daughter, okay? So he's an antagonist the next quotation relating to his character is when he realizes that Catherine is Dead set on marrying Morris and he you know resigned Lee says oh my gosh We have fattened the sheep for Townsend before he kills it Which is an exclamatory sentence is showing it's ending with an exclamation mark is showing his strong emotions Okay, he says we have fattened the sheep for Townsend before he kills it now this exclamatory sentence And of course then reference to the sheep is a metaphor. Okay, this is directly referring to Catherine again illustrating that Catherine doesn't have An ability to think for herself. So again, he's also insulting her what this is illustrating is that dr. Sloper is Clearly aware of Morris's Mercenary intentions to marry Catherine just for her money and he's basically saying oh we've prepared her and we're gonna leave her with all This money only for Townsend to use it and to squander it all the next quotation in the final quotation Which illustrates just how spiteful he is in his treatment of his daughter is when we learn her father Which is of course dr. Sloper never looked at her never spoke to her ellipsis He rather enjoyed having to be so disagreeable. So he literally gave Catherine the silent treatment He doesn't look at her He really punishes her for something that is actually a very natural feeling just falling in love with a guy And again remember as I've mentioned in the opening quotation he married out of love, right? However, he's hypocritically punishing Catherine for falling in love with another man. Okay now here We can see especially through the repetition of never. Okay. What this illustrates is dr. Sloper really does also take a bit of glee about a bit of a perverse pleasure in Causing a lot of pain to Catherine. Okay, so we can see him as a very antagonistic character I would say that we as readers are not meant to look at him in any other way But with disdain especially in how he treats her his daughter Okay, but of course he is able to clearly see through Morris and he functions as the gatekeeper To New York elite society especially by casting him out of the marriage to Catherine Which would have placed him really comfortably and firmly back up in New York elite society So that's really it when it comes to quotations to revise if you are writing or studying about the character of dr. Sloper in Washington Square