Love and Marriage

Question 1

Cake

Answer 1

Frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling

Question 2

Hulking

Answer 2

‘I hate that word hulking’ objected Tom crossly….’Hulking’, insisted Daisy

Question 3

Telephone

Answer 3

‘She might have the decency not to telephone at dinner time’

Question 4

‘Daisy! Daisy!’

Answer 4

‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs Wilson…Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand

Question 5

Best suit

Answer 5

‘He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in’

Question 6

Suit

Answer 6

‘He had on a dress suit and leather shoes, and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him’

Question 7

Husband’s and wife’s

Answer 7

Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands…

Question 8

Pale

Answer 8

Pale as death…standing in a puddle of water

Question 9

Glowed

Answer 9

He literally glowed….a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room

Question 10

Deathless

Answer 10

I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed - that voice was a deathless song

Question 11

Ray

Answer 11

His Star….kiss at her cheek….’I think she’s lovely’

Question 12

Offended

Answer 12

But the rest offended her…because it wasn’t a gesture but an emotion

Question 13

Nothing less

Answer 13

He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’

Question 14

Nobody

Answer 14

‘I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife’

Question 15

Wife’s man

Answer 15

He was his wife’s man and not his own

Question 16

Conspiring

Answer 16

There was an unmistakeable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together

Question 17

Revalued

Answer 17

‘He revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loves eyes’

Question 18

Colossal Vitality

Answer 18

Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not throw her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion

Question 19

Perishable

Answer 19

‘Forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath’

Question 19

Past

Answer 19

‘You can’t repeat the past’

‘Why of course you can!’

Question 20

Grail

Answer 20

‘Committed himself to the following of a grail’

Question 21

Silver

Answer 21

‘Overwhelmingly aware…Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and Prius above the hot struggles of the poor’