Rear Window

Question 1

Lisa, in this job… (marriage)

Answer 1

Jeff to Lisa: “Lisa, in this job you carry one suitcase. Your home is the available transportation. You don’t sleep very much. You bathe less. And sometimes the food that you eat is made from things that you couldn’t even look at when they’re alive.”

Question 2

Can’t you just… (marriage)

Answer 2

Jeff: “Can’t you just see me, rushing home to a hot apartment to listen to… the nagging wife?” (To editor)

Question 3

She expects… (marriage)

Answer 3

Jeff and Stella: “She expects me to marry her.” - “That’s normal.” - “I don’t want to.” - “That’s abnormal.”

Question 4

I need… (marriage)

Answer 4

Jeff about Lisa: “I need a woman who’s willing to go anywhere and do anything and love it.”

Question 5

Those high… (marriage)

Answer 5

Jeff to Lisa: “Those high heels would be a lot of use in the jungle”

Question 6

You don’t… (loneliness/relationships)

Answer 6

Dog owner: “You don’t know the meaning of the word “neighbor.” Neighbors like each other, speak to each other, care if anybody lives or dies. But none of you do!”

Question 7

Kept to… (loneliness/relationships)

Answer 7

Doyle about Thorwald: “Kept to himself. No neighbours got close to him or his wife.”

Question 8

You’d think… (ethics and morality)

Answer 8

Lisa: “You’d think we could be a little bit happier that the poor woman is alive and well.”

Question 9

We’ve become… (ethics and morality)

Answer 9

Stella: “We’ve become a race of Peeping Toms”

Question 10

I wonder… (ethics and morality)

Answer 10

Jeff: “I wonder if it’s ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens.”

Question 11

Whatever happened… (ethics and morality)

Answer 11

Lisa: “Whatever happened to that old saying, ‘Love thy neighbour?’”

Question 12

That’s a secret… (ethics and morality)

Answer 12

Doyle: “That’s a secret private world you’re looking to in there”.

Question 13

We’re two… (ethics and morality)

Answer 13

Lisa: “We’re two of the most frightening ghouls”

Question 14

Is this… (gender relations)

Answer 14

Jeff, then Lisa: “Is this the Lisa Fremont who never wears the same dress twice?” “Only because it’s expected of her”

Question 15

In the old days… (gender relations/ethics/morality)

Answer 15

Stella: “In the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red hot poker. Any of those bikini bombshells you’re always watching worth a red-hot poker?”

Question 16

Well, that’s fine… (gender relations)

Answer 16

Jeff: “Well, that’s fine, Stella. Now, would you fix me a sandwich, please?”

Question 17

Let’s let… (gender relations)

Answer 17

Doyle: “Let’s let the female psychology department handle that one.”

Question 18

I’ll trade… (gender relations)

Answer 18

Lisa: “I’ll trade you… My feminine intuition for a bed for the night”

Question 19

She belongs… (gender relations)

Answer 19

Jeff about Lisa: “She belongs to that rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue: Expensive restaurants and literary cocktail parties.”

Question 20

Next Wednesday… (Jeff’s motives)

Answer 20

Jeff: “Next Wednesday I emerge from this… plaster cocoon”

Question 21

Right now… (Jeff’s motives)

Answer 21

Jeff: “Right now I’d welcome trouble.” (to Stella)

Question 22

When a man… (modern marraige)

Answer 22

Stella: “When a man and a woman see each other and like each other, they ought to come together, wham, like a couple of Taxis on Broadway, not just sit around analysing each other like two specimen in a bottle.”

Question 23

Every man… (modern marriage)

Answer 23

Stella: “Every man is right for marriage when the right girl comes along.”

Question 24

She’s not… (loneliness/relationships)

Answer 24

Lisa: “She’s not in love with him… or any of them.”

Question 25

At least… (loneliness/relationships)

Answer 25

Jeff: “At least that’s something you’ll never have to worry about.”

Question 26

Poor soul… (modern marriage)

Answer 26

Stella and Jeff: “Poor soul. Maybe one day she’ll find her happiness.” “Yeah, and some man will lose his.”

Question 27

You just… (gender relations)

Answer 27

Jeff: “You just have to face it, Lisa, you aren’t meant for that kind of a life. Few people are.”

Question 28

How far… (gender relations)

Answer 28

Lisa: “How far does a girl have to go before you’ll notice her?”

Question 29

She’s just not… (modern marriage)

Answer 29

Jeff: “She’s just not the girl for me… she’s too perfect. She’s too talented. She’s too beautiful. She’s too sophisticated. She’s too everything, but what I want.”

Question 30

That female intuition… (gender relations)

Answer 30

Doyle: “That female intuition stuff sells magazines but in real life, it’s still a fairy tale.”

Question 31

It could be… (Doyle’s scepticism)

Answer 31

Doyle: “It could be any number of things. Murder’s the least possible.”

Question 32

Jeff is very dismissive of Lisa, telling her to…

Answer 32

“shut up.”

Question 33

Jeff if you could… (ethics)

Answer 33

Lisa: “Jeff if you could only see yourself”

Question 34

Jeff is shown to fall in love with Lisa when Lisa deduces why it can’t have been Mrs. Thorwald when he tells her to…

Answer 34

“come here,” the first time he is shown to initiate the intimacy.

Question 35

You said I’ll have to… (exceeding expectations)

Answer 35

Lisa: “You said I’ll have to live out of one suitcase. I’ll bet yours isn’t this small.”

Question 36

The newlywed wife constantly calling…

Answer 36

“Gary!”

Question 37

Mind if I use… (change of morals from Stella)

Answer 37

Stella: “Mind if I use that portable keyhole?”

Question 38

I’m proud… (falling in love)

Answer 38

Jeff: “I’m proud of you.”

Question 39

Jeff wants to keep things…

Answer 39

“status quo.”