Fiona Moore wrote:
Nobody mentioned his accent; your own assumptions are disturbing you.
True, nobody mentioned his accent *directly*; I was picking up on the fact that Kathryn said that Travis II was a thug of a lower social class than Travis I. Since I don't think she could have read those differences in from the change in waist size (or from the change in behaviour; Travis I is just as menacing as Travis II), the only reason for inferring it as far as I can see is that Brian Croucher has a marked East End accent, and Stephen Greif doesn't.
I wouldn't know an East End accent if it had me in a chokehold. I can tell they have different accents, but being an American, I don't have any of the social reference points to make it into a class association. I can still see what's being referred to. Travis I is IMO for the most part arrogant, self-contained, and focused, while Travis II is resentful, petulant, and obsessed. I tend to see them as a continuum, with hints of Travis II in Travis I; but someone else might easily read those as the reactions of someone who started within the power structure as opposed to someone who had to fight his way into it.
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