Old Questions Flashcards
Fiction and some biography
neighbour real name? TGG
Jimmy Gatz TGG
Daisy’s sin? TGG
materialism TGG
Lolita antagonist? Presented as?
Clare Quilty. Playwright. Deviant. Corrupting.
Key date motif? TGS
4th August TGS (Britain declares war on Germany in 1914)
Lolita - contemptuous name for wife? Her setting?
Charlotte Haze. Haze woman. Mama. New England
OFO Narrator’s name for authority? Frequent analogy?
OFO The combine. Technology / machinery
Two poor leaders? BD
Chamberlain, Daladier
LITOC Florentino Ariza
The illegitimate son of Tránsito Ariza and Pius V Loayza
Why was Braithwaite irritated by the film version of his novel?
He felt that the interracial love affair was underplayed.
Btw…
Sydney Poitier was the lead.
Lulu sang the theme!
Was 60s, not 50s so music presented differently.
What mountains might have inspired Buzzati?
The Dolomites
TGS Nancy’s fate? SH GI
sacrifices herself goes insane TGS
S5 What happens to Roland Weary?
dies of gangrene
Narrator’s wife? TGS
Florence Hurlbird Dowell
Fitzgerald died? TGG
1940 TGG
LITOC How does Dr. Juvenal Urbino die?
He falls to his death from the mango tree
whiteness represents? TGG
purity / absence TGG
Education secretary? BD
Rust BD
When do the other guests arrive at Zverkov’s dinner?
an hour after he arrives due to a communication failure UM
With what imagined tale does UM torment Liza?
The imagined funeral of a prostitute (like her)
Important place in Berlin? BD
Nuremberg BD
When does UM visit Anton Antonych at home?
to borrow money UM
Disturbing ‘high culture’ observation? BD
theatre opera still good despite purging BD
The Girl’? TGS
Nancy Rufford
OFO Protagonist? Six Christ parallels?
OFO Randale McMurphy. Shaking all hands. Miracles / crown of thorns / apostles / sacrifice / fishing / last supper
Food parcels? BD
sent from soldiers to families BD
OFO Published? Setting? Reaction?
OFO 1962 mental institution. Oregan 1950s Banned
The ‘good soldier’?
Captain Edward Ashburnham
This is the s_ s_ th_ I h_ e_ h_… TGS
saddest story that I have ever heard
LITOC What is Florentia responsible for x3?
death of young girl, death of lover, destruction of environment and river
colour association? TGG
white TGG
When was ‘To Sir with Love’ published and set? Genre? Where set?
Autobiographical novel, set 1945, published 1959
Tough East-End school.
Lolita - how is USA presented?
as ‘new money’. Shabby
Name the protagonist TTS
Giovanni Drogo
OFO Key control metaphor?
OFO controlled fog
Published? TGG
1925 TGG
form? TTS
magical realism TTS
Lolita Published / set / protagonist / places?
1955 pub. 1947 - 52 set. Humbert H. France. USA
LITOC. What is Jeremiah Saint Armour’s biggest secret?
LITOC He has kept a secret mistress for over half of his life
This is the m_ a_ t_ y_ h_ d_ i_ y_ a_ l_ … TGS
most attrocious thing you have done in your attrocious life
Dates covered? BD
Jan 1934 - Dec 1940 BD
Maisie’s fate? (FIS HC) TGS
falls into suitcase (heart condition)
Aspects of POW ‘fantasy’? SH5
Porn star, well endowed, fertile SH5
exploited representatives of working classes? TGG
Myrtle … Myrtle’s fate is among the most tragic, as she is a victim of both her husband as well as people she’s never met. Myrtle is a constant prisoner. In the beginning of the book she’s stuck in the figurative prison of her social class and her depressing marriage. Midway through, however, this immaterial prison becomes literal when George, suspicious that she’s cheating on him, locks her in their rooms above the garage. This situation only amplifies her desperation to escape, which leads to her death in Chapter 7. When she escapes and runs out in front of Gatsby’s car, she does so because she saw Tom driving it earlier in the day; she thinks he’s behind the wheel. Daisy, who doesn’t know Myrtle, is driving the car when it strikes Myrtle down; Daisy doesn’t even stop to see what happened, and escapes without consequences.
OFO “What do … ….. … ..? C…. .. ………? Well…’.. …! Y..’.. …! Y..’.. .. ……. …. … ……. ……. ……. …… … … ……. … ….’s ..!”
OFO “What do you think you are? Crazy or something? Well you’re not! You’re not! Upu’re no crazier than the average *** walking out on the street and that’s it!”
Lolita’s real name? Irony?
Dolores Haze. Doll - objectified. Haze = blurred connection to reality.
LITOC Ofelia tells her mother that love among elderly people is:
Disgusting like Last Tango LITOC
Job? BD
CBS correspondent
Tom’s prejudice? TGG
fear of inter-marriage TGG
Unusual form? SH5
anti-bildungsroman SH5
Revealing moment? TGG
Daisy sobbing at shirts TGG
Trafalmadorian concept of time? (ATES)
all time exists simultaneously SH5
LITOC Author first published what language?
1985 Spanish LITOC
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What workplace inspired the novel? ANRNS (TTS)
A newspaper room night shift
LITOC Fermina agrees to marry Florentino on the condition that
His mother will not make her eat eggplant LITOC
Why does UM dislike the idea of the Crystal Palace?
He would not be able to stick his tongue out at it
Name of aliens? SH5
Trafalmadorians
LITOC What is the name of the ship aboard which Florentino and Fermina travel?
The New Fidelity LITOC
Key sporting motif? TGS
badminton Nancy’s word
LITOC.How long does Florentino wait to profess his love for Fermina?
Fifty-one years
Why does UM sleep with Liza at his apartment?
to reassert his power UM
UM Why does Apollon not get paid?
UM wants to exert power
LITOC América Vicuña
América Vicuña child lover
Why is Florence deceitful?
heart condition TGS
What has he lost? TGS
moral certitude sense of right and wrong TGS