Indentity cat

Question 1

‘I don’t want to lean on your shoulder, I want my crutch!’

Answer 1

Exclamatory tone, repetition of I, contrast of shoulder and crutch. Image of masculinity and self-relevance

Question 2

‘A pretty young woman with anxious lines in her face.’

Answer 2

SD, pre-modifying adj, shows maggie is worried about her relationship

Question 3

‘His face crumbles like broken yellow plaster about to fall into dust.’

Answer 3

Simile. Dynamic verb ‘crumbles’. BD is getting destroyed by cancer the patriarchal hierarchy is removed in act 3 as power shifts

Question 4

‘She’s always tensed like a Japanese wrestler’

Answer 4

Simile, averb of frequency ‘always’

Question 5

‘Their little fat heads on their little fat bodies’

Answer 5

premodifying adj-fat. No-neck monsters are disliked by Maddie showing her personality and non-maternal nature from outset

Question 6

‘But Gooper’s wife’s a good breeder’

Answer 6

Common noun breeder, animalistic connotations, prime function. ae objectified by society