Obviously, Mrs Hughes has always been the kinder, the more pratical, the more tolerant one. Carson used to be quiet loveable with his grumpiness and his unabilty to change. But now, he is just an idiot, and a terrible husband.
Obviously, Mrs Hughes has always been the kinder, the more pratical, the more tolerant one. Carson used to be quiet loveable with his grumpiness and his unabilty to change. But now, he is just an idiot, and a terrible husband.
Hear, hear! I don't understand how he became such a rat!
No he's not! He got confused because he was a traditionalist AND he was accustomed to Downton Abbey ways so he had an traditional idea of what wives do and had grown accustomed to good food and neat beds provided for by the servants in Downton.
He just needed a reality check and then Mrs. Hughes gave it to him. That's always been the strength between these two, Carson has never been great at reading people and being sensistive and Hughes always used to advise him how to be better. This time, she was the victim of that and she couldn't simultaneously advise him, so she taught him a lesson.
I think it showed how kind he really can be when Hughes made him cook. He was a little incompetent, he burned himself and yet, he didn't complain because he loves her. He just needed to be taken down a few pegs.
He's been a bit crabby, I agree, but as Mrs Patmore says, "we all knew it was late to train him as a husband". Mr.Carson has lived in his own perfect world for 40 years or more, he has grown accustomed to ask the best of everyone, including Mrs.Hughes! Plus he doesn't really notice he's behaving badly, he thinks she will take his criticism as well as she would if it was a matter of the house.
It's always been like that for these two. Carson is traditional and problematic and a curmudgeon, but the holy Elsie comes and shows him with love and patiente how it is done. And he loves her so much! He called her beautiful and fair and said he hoped a delicious meal from her because he truly believes she can do it. He didn't have a good time cooking but didn't complain because he knew she couldn't do it, etc etc. His love for this woman is incomparable, and thank the Heavens she knows it.
It's always been like that for these two. Carson is traditional and problematic and a curmudgeon, but the holy Elsie comes and shows him with love and patiente how it is done. And he loves her so much! He called her beautiful and fair and said he hoped a delicious meal from her because he truly believes she can do it. He didn't have a good time cooking but didn't complain because he knew she couldn't do it, etc etc. His love for this woman is incomparable, and thank the Heavens she knows it.
To me love isn't a feeling or saying a compliment. It's to the deeds you do for your beloved. If he really loved her, he wouldn't complain for the food.
OK, Carson is an old-fashioned man to whom it's natural that the wife does everything whereas he sit and waits in peace after they had both worked the whole day. But at least he could have been pretend to be pleased with the food and tactfully suggest that they would continue to eat in Downton.
Jean Anne, you are imposing 21st centuryvalues on a a 1920's man. Ain't gonna work.
Bates has never expected Anna to cook at home. Anna and Bates were the marriage of equals compared to the era. There was a great line from Rochester in Jane Eyre. "I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience" I think Bates feels the same way towars Anna.