Covert to Overt: A Linear Behavioral Strands in Graham Swift’s Last Orders and Shuttlecock

Abstract

The present research details the linear behavioral pattern exists between each set of  characters in Graham Swift’s Last Orders and Shuttlecock. An aspect of behavioral standards remains relatively unexplored in these two novels. The implication of behavioral analyzation reveals that, the characters in these novels follow different but linear behavioral pattern by means of reflecting upon their past memories in the present. Through observational research methodology, the study depicts that the characters’ linear behavioral pattern transpires because of ‘transgenerational impact’. The ‘cultural’ and ‘collective’ memory covertly becomes the ‘transgenerational impact’ which overtly outcomes as linear behavioral strands among the characters’.