Marriage Cat

Question 1

‘I loved your hate and even your hardness’ BM TO BD

Answer 1

intensifier- even- juxtaposition of loved and hate -binary opposites. BM is blindly in love with BD

Question 2

‘Both of us married into society’ (B)

Answer 2

metaphor- earned place in societies’ expectations

Question 3

‘And so I married Maggie’

Answer 3

Opening of coordinating conjunction- appears to have been an after thought’

Question 4

‘I never even liked her, never did’ BD about BM

Answer 4

temporal adverbial never- BD’s marriage lacks any true feeling

Question 5

‘You and I have not produced any children, are totally childless and therefore totally useless’

Answer 5

Mirrored structure and repetition of ‘totally’ draws relationship between adjectives ‘childless’ and ‘useless’. expectations of motherhood

Question 6

‘Jump off the roof’

Answer 6

Extended metaphor- Brick suggests Maggie should take a lover- marriage has failed